After a long, full career in the dance industry, Debbie Diggs, founder of Diggs School of Dance in Gloucester and Bayside Youth Ballet has decided to retire. Bayside Youth Ballet will be taking over Diggs School of Dance and is actively searching for a new space to house the studio.
Diggs started her dancing career as a young child, at only 4 years old. She recalled a few years where she decided to quit dance, but quickly realized it truly was her passion and began taking classes again. “After I graduated from high school I went to college for a couple years, still dancing,” she said. As there were not many colleges that offered dance programs, she had to attend college while also taking dance classes at a separate studio.
A few years in, Diggs realized there wasn’t anything for her in college. “I really wanted to teach [dance], so I moved to Orlando and I went to one of the very big studios that had a teacher training program and I took my two-year teacher training,” she said.
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