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Libbi
had accrued 14 years of ballet, tap, and jazz as well as 2 ½ years of hip hop by the time she left for college. At Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, she studied both regular and technique versions of ballet, jazz, and modern dance for her minor degree in Dance. Libbi also studied Dance History, Improvisation/choreography, Dance Performance, and
Rhythmic Analysis. She majored in Deaf Education.
While
in graduate school in 2005, at an American Sign Language variety show, Libbi discovered clogging. She immediately signed up for the Rhythm Rocker cloggers and started performing with them. They proved pivotal in her later quest for certification in clogging.
The Cherokee Cloggers in Rusk were also supportive by having her teach there for several months prior to her move to
the Dallas area.
By
day, Libbi is an itinerant deaf education teacher in Dallas. By night, she takes classes at Bruce Lea Dance Factory
in Fort Worth under the tutelage of renowned instructor Elaine Bender. Previously
she was a member of Shufflin’ Shoes in Richardson under the direction of Dee Dick, but moved on to teach her own group one night a week in Garland.
Libbi has also attended the National
Clogging Conventions in Phoenix (2006), Nashville (2007), San Diego (2008), New Orleans (2009) and Grapevine, TX (2011). She taught in the open teach halls in Nashville, San Diego, New Orleans and Grapevine and was thrilled by the opportunity to teach as an introductory instructor at the National
Convention in Grapevine. Libbi received her Certified Clogging Instructor (CCI) in Nashville in 2007. She has taught at the Texas Clogging Rally,
Double Toe Jam, the NORTEX Round-up, Luckenbach on Taps, Hickory Hoedown in Hickory, NC and also for a small
workshop in Alberta, Canada. She also co-hosted two workshops with Elaine Bender in Fort Worth which featured Simone Pace from South
Carolina. What fun clogging experiences she has been blessed to have!! :)
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Cuing What I love!
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Cuing one of my original choreographed dances at Glen Allen Recreation Center in Sherwood
Park, Alberta, Canada.
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