Claudia Fowler was born and raised in Gaffney, SC. After working for twenty-eight years as both a teacher and a guidance counselor in Cherokee County Schools, she retired – but she’s never retired from teaching dance. Claudia fell in love with clogging at age six and has been teaching clogging for over fifty years. In fact, Claudia was the first contestant to use clogging as her talent in the Miss America pageant system. Claudia’s love of dance was passed down to her daughter, Julia Fowler, but Claudia often found herself travelling outside of her hometown community in search of quality dance education for Julia. So, in 1991, Claudia, her daughter, and her husband, Allen Fowler, opened a dance studio in Gaffney offering classes in tap, jazz, ballet, and clogging. After seventeen years of training students and building award winning dance teams, the Fowlers sold the dance studio to Chip and Misty Harrison and are thrilled that the studio has continued to flourish under their talented leadership.