Lori Garling has served the region as a professional dance educator, pageant coach and certified member of the prestigious National Registry of Dance Educators since 1982. Garling is a dance teacher, choreographer, private coach, musician, grant writer, designer of costumes and sets and a performing arts community leader. She has taught in the South Central PA region for over 30 years. She is a teacher of classical and contemporary ballet and also a freelance choreographer and teacher for area schools and colleges, health clubs, and musical theatre organizations. She is an arts advocate for the community of York. Lori Garling is an expert in the development of pre-professional dancers, and her passion is to bring all people to share and experience the love of dance. She believes that the arts matter, especially in the lives of children and that all children should have the chance to dance with no regard to their ability to pay.