Dorothy’s clogging career started when she was five years old with the Little Switzerland Cloggers in Bath County, Virginia performing at local festivals and events. She has been with her Little Switzerland Cloggers family ever since, and became their director in 2003.

Dorothy is a regular instructor at the annual Radford University Clogging Workshop. She has competed up and down the east coast earning honors in Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. She was the 2007 Amatuer Grand Champion Female at Dieter’s Beach Jam in Myrtle Beach and the ACHF World Championships in Maggie Valley.

She is also the founder of VirginiaClog.com, a website devoted to spreading the word of clogging and to bring Virginia cloggers together. Dorothy’s goal is to play a part in promoting clogging in Virginia and to encourage other cloggers to continue to spur the growth of clogging in Virginia.

In 2006, Dorothy left her 9 to 5 bank job and opened The Sundance Studio in an old barn, where she teaches…. what else…. clogging! Dorothy now leads her two teams Sundance Express and the Little Switzerland Cloggers and also competes with the Mountain Heritage Cloggers lead by her friend, Lisa Johnson. She says that she would not be where she is today without her wonderful family, her always supportive mother, Crystal, and her loving and supportive husband, Robby.