Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 

March 25, 2023

Tentative Schedule:
  • 8am Registration
  • 9am - 12pm Classes
  • 10-11am Beginner Class
  • 12-1pm Lunch Break
  • 1-3pm Classes
  • 3-3:15pm Raffle
  • 3:15-5:15pm Classes
  • 5:15-6:30pm Dinner Break
  • 6:30-8:30pm Fun Dance

Location:

North Carroll Community School
401 Stone Road
Westminster, MD 21158

For more information:

Email: [email protected]
Diane Gehret: (410) 259-8864/[email protected]
Lynn Grassi: (410) 428-6992/[email protected]

THANK YOU
for
Rocking Rolling 'N Clogging with us!

Many thanks to...
  • Our featured Instructor: Dustin Stephan
  • Our local instructors: Addison & Chynna Birkmire, Barb Elko, Joyce Guthrie, Kathy Moore, Becky Morehouse, Pam Smiley, Mary Smith & Jayne Treadwell
  • North Carroll Community School 
  • ​It's All Good Food Truck
  • YOU! The dancers and spectators.

2023 T-shirt

Consider purchasing our event-themed T-shirt as part of your Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 2023 registration. Click on links below to view apparel item, color and size specs. See the registration form (available for download above) for more details.
The Carroll County Cloggers are excited to announce that It's All Good Food Truck will be on site at the Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 2023 to serve lunch and dinner. They specialize in BBQ, macaroni and cheese, grilled sandwiches and crab dishes and will also have some vegetarian offerings as well as sides and drinks. You can check out some sample menus on their Facebook page. Prices will start at only $5. Cash and credit are accepted. Please plan to support our awesome food vendor. 
It's All Good Food Truck and Catering Services
Chef inspired, Dietician approved cuisine
Daniel Smith, C.D.M., C.F.P.P.
Chef/Owner
[email protected]
Cafe (410) 848-2128

Featuring

Dustin Stephan

A grant and award-winning producer and director, Dustin enjoys working at the intersection of performance and technology to provide immersive storytelling experiences.

​Dustin brings over 25 years of professional performance experience including appearances on the Grand Ole Opry, Walt Disney World, contracted industrial work and major network filming.  Videos of his choreography and performances have gone “viral” with views on YouTube and Facebook well over 120 Million.

He served as an Adjunct Lecturer for Indiana University from 2010 – 2015 and recently presented his unique work at the ECTA conference in Germany.

In 2019, Dustin was conferred as a Master of Entertainment Technology candidate at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center with a Themed Entertainment Concentration.  He enjoys developing interactive storytelling experiences across all mediums and is currently a Senior Creative Producer for Blue Telescope Laboratories.

Local Instructors

Addison Birkmire

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Addison Birkmire is 20 years old from Hays, NC, and began acting at a young age in local community theatre shows. Some of his favorite previous roles have been Harry Bailey in Dollywood’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”, multiple characters in Dollywood’s “Little Engine Playhouse”, Hunk the Farmhand at the Land of Oz, as well as performing as a clogger, magician, and cowboy at Tweetsie Railroad. Addison is a clogger and enjoys sharing his skills with others at workshops around the country and has clogged with many teams including the Bailey Mountain Cloggers, and American Racket. Outside of performing, Addison is an avid movie fan and a lover of all things 80’s. He most recently played “Buddy the elf” in Elf the musical in his home town. Addison is excited to teach at Mason Dixon Spring Stomp!

Joyce Guthrie

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 “My only regret is that I didn’t find clogging earlier in life!”  Joyce has been dancing since 1997 and is proud to be a part of the Blue Ridge Thunder Cloggers. She achieved CCI certification through CLOG, the national clogging organization, in 2010.
 
A graduate of the University of Florida (Go, Gators!), Joyce spent some interesting years as a trauma nurse. She set aside her stethoscope to love and homeschool her seven children. Now that they are grown, she dedicates her time and talents to nonprofit organizations, which keep her involved with teen safe driving, education, community service, faith-based initiatives and clogging:-) 
 
Joyce is Vice President and Co-Dance Instructor with Blue Ridge Thunder Cloggers (BRTC).  She loves farm life, quilting, sign language, overalls, Mac computers, clogging and choreography. In her spare time, she maintains a comprehensive list/interactive map of clogging groups around the world.    
www.iClog.us     [email protected]s

Pam Smiley

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Pam has been involved in every aspect of clogging since she began in 1980.  Her love of percussive dance led her to clogging and the tradition of the dance grabbed her heart.  Living in California where clogging was in it’s infancy at the time, she traveled to get more exposure to every aspect of the culture of clogging meeting so many people along the way.   Pam has clogged in 18 states and on a cruise ship in the Caribbean and has a goal to clog in every state.

Pam began with a performance team 4 months after starting her journey and has danced with several different groups though the years.  Clogging has given Pam the opportunity to do so many things that without clogging would probably not have been afforded to her including dancing in many types of shows from County Fairs to an International Dance Festival with Sammy Davis Jr. and more.

Pam has been a competitive clogger (singles, duos and team) and directed 3 clogging workshops for a total of 22 years, one of them she also taught at for 12 years.  Pam is also a certified NCHC judge and has judged competitions all over the country.   Pam is currently the editor of the CLOG Today magazine published by C.L.O.G. 
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With all of the things clogging has given to her, the biggest is the relationships.  Pam can say that clogging as given her the opportunity to meet so many people around the country and the world and counts them all as family.

Chynna Birkmire

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Chynna, 23, originally from Maryland, but now from North Carolina, has been clogging majority of her life! She earned her C.C.I. through CLOG in 2016 and loves sharing her passion for clogging. She currently teaches clogging at Sole Impact Studios in Boone, NC, and coaches their competition teams who brought home 4 national titles at the 2022 Nationals in Nashville, TN. She’s won 2 national grand champion titles for her solo as well as been crowned Miss Southeastern Clogger and Miss ACHF Traditional Ambassador. She has also clogged at places like the Carolina Opry with All That!, Tunes and Tales in Gatlinburg, and Folkmoot International Dance festival. In addition to clogging, Chynna has performed at Dollywood and Tweetsie Railroad as well as other local theatre productions. She’s excited to be back to teach!! 

Kathy Moore

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 Kathy learned to clog from Tandy Barrett in 1985, while living in Atlanta, GA.  She is currently the director of the Calico Cloggers of Northern Virginia, and is Clogging Advisor to the Washington Area Squaredance Cooperative Association.

Kathy completed the CLOG Certified Clogging Instructor program in 2004.  She has taught at various clogging and square dance workshops around the East Coast, as well as classes with Fairfax Country Recreation Authority.  Her personal website is currently www.kamclogger.org, and the Calico Cloggers site is www.calicocloggers.us.

Kathy is a web developer, currently a contractor for the National Weather Service National Centers for Environmental Prediction.  She has been working from home since March 2020, and plans to retire this year.  She's very tired of hanging around the house all day and is ready to get out and do things again! 

Mary Smith

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​Mary Smith is a native of the plains of rural northeastern Montana. The roots of clogging lie deep in her heritage as her grandparents include natives of Ireland and the mountains of southwestern Virginia. Mary moved to Austin, Texas, in the early 1980s upon college graduation, and it was there, in the fall of 1987, that she took a class in beginning clog dancing. She got on stage for the first time as a performer in the spring of 1988 and by 1990 was teaching the beginner lessons for her group, the Clickety Cloggers. At this time she also became the director of the group's exhibition team and began choreographing routines. She continued in this capacity until a job change brought her to the Washington, DC, area in the fall of 1995. She was no longer clogging with a group but returned to Texas twice a year to teach at clogging workshops.
 
In June of 1997, she was approached by a member of a local clogging group whose instructor was moving and was asked to fill the instructor's shoes. The group reorganized and the Blue Ridge Thunder Cloggers were born.  Mary continues as the lead instructor for BRTC and teaches at various workshops around the East Coast and Texas.

Barb Elko

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Barb Elko calls South Park Pennsylvania home. She became hooked on clogging after responding to an article offering two free clogging lessons, which was in 2007. One year later she began teaching, and in 2010 started a club the Pioneer Cloggers. Barb is a huge fan of costumes! Her opinion is costumes make the demos more interesting for the audience as well as the dancers. Besides weekly classes she has taught at workshops in various states. Barb enjoys writing articles for the C.L.O.G. and the WNYCA newsletters. It is a way to express gratitude to the folks hosting the workshops and encourage readers to attend. Instructors from all over the world convey the latest music, innovated steps, and unique presentations. She believes the experiences acquired at workshops are essential to the growth of a clogging club and it’s members. Mostly workshops are crazy FUN! Having attended a gazillion workshops, she considers herself an expert at having fun. Her biggest blessing as a clogger is the bond shared on and off the dance floor with new found friends.

Becky Morehouse

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Becky began her clogging adventure in 1990 when she enrolled her two young daughters, ages 8 and 5, into the beginner class with the Calico Cloggers of Maryland.  Becky thought that by enrolling them and having to “help” them practice between classes that she could secretly pick up some of the dance herself.  But she quickly learned that you can’t just sit in the room and watch; and clogging soon became their family “sport.”  As Calico Clogger members, her family often performed demos in the Columbia area, as well as regularly supported the Carroll County Cloggers in their local demos.  Becky went on to bring up two more children in the world of clogging, dancing weekly, and her family of five regularly participating in performances.  When Calico Cloggers disbanded in 1999, it just wasn’t an option to not clog.  So, in 2000, Becky started her own dance group, Footnotes, and she began teaching through Carroll County Department of Recreation & Parks.  Becky enjoys choreographing routines with her daughters, and for the past 23 years, she has offered clogging classes every Monday night, hoping to do her part in growing and keeping clogging alive in Maryland!

Jayne Treadwell

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​A 3rd generation clogger, Jayne's love affair with clogging began in 1980 when her granddaddy decided to learn to clog....at 65 years young! Soon after, “Pappy” took his grandkids out to his barn and taught them to clog, living to see four generations of his family become accomplished cloggers.
 
Jayne began teaching clogging in 1985, and in 1991 founded the East Country Hoedowners clogging team. Jayne proudly led her team as they performed and competed throughout the southeastern United States, performed in our nation’s capital, and made annual television appearances on the WCTI-TV 12 Cystic Fibrosis Telethon for over 30 years.
 
A gifted choreographer and dedicated instructor, Jayne is passionate about teaching proper movement and technique at all levels and styles of clogging: Beginners from Scratch, Flatfootin’, Buckdancing, traditional southern Appalachian freestyle routines, duos and duets, and choreographed line dances (traditional and contemporary). With a strong background in traditional/drag-slide clogging, Jayne’s priority is to pass these traditions down to the next generation, educating them on the roots of clogging, and encouraging all cloggers to “keep the tradition alive”.
 
Jayne teaches at public and private workshops and conventions in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Kentucky. She even spent two unforgettable weeks teaching in Germany. She loves working one-on-one with teams and is available for private workshops.
 
Jayne was named to the National Clogging and Hoedown Council All-Star Team in 1994 and the America’s Clogging Hall of Fame All American Team in 1996, and appeared on TNN’s Club Dance in 1996. Throughout her clogging career Jayne has had the privilege of being a guest performer on numerous clogging teams: Panther Creek Mountain Dancers (FL), Fantasia Express (NC), Dazzlin’ Image (VA), Cripple Creek (NC), Flatland (VA), Carolina Heartland (NC), Little River (NC), Wagon Wheel (NC), Carolina Fusion (NC), Lutheridge (NC), Rhythmic Alliance (VA), and Southern Mountain Fire Cloggers (NC).
 
Available for purchase at today’s workshop, Jayne’s popular instructional DVD, "Building on the Basic", is a great resource for those just learning to clog, and anyone wanting to improve their freestyle or put more style in their steps.
 
Born and raised in eastern North Carolina, Jayne moved to northern Virginia in November 2012. Jayne is super excited to teach this weekend and looks forward to encouraging you in your clogging journey!
The Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 2023 was funded in part by an Arts Opportunity Mini Grant from the Carroll County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council.
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