Christine Harkey has been the festival director of the Apple Chill Cloggers since 2010. She learned to clog in the mountains of North Carolina. Influenced by the folk revival of the 1970’s, she was a founding member of her school's traditional clogging team. Christine took ballet, tap, and jazz classes in high school and college. While in art school, she took a clogging class taught by a graduate of the BYU folk dance team. He started teaching some folk dances, and she was hooked! While on a trip to Germany, she saw some Bavarian folk dancers and decided she needed some folk dance in her life. In 2004, Christine joined the Apple Chill Cloggers and was excited to start performing internationally. Christine has a BFA in art education from UNC Greensboro and was a secondary art teacher for 33 years.