Gibb

BYU Choreographer to speak at devotional

Sara Lee Gibb, dean of the College of Health and Human Performance and Professor of Dance at BYU in Provo, Utah, will speak at the BYU-Idaho devotional Nov. 1.

 Her career as a performer and choreographer has ranged from ballet idiom to contemporary forms, modern dance and musical theatre. She has published and presented research topics central to dance and the health of the body around the world.

 Gibb developed the Dance Teacher Preparation Program at BYU. She also founded the BYU Children’s Creative dance program and created dance courses for the university.

As an advocate for the arts, Gibb completed eight years of service as a member of the Board of Directors of the Utah Arts Council and served as chair of the board for the last three of those years.

She is currently serving as the president of the National Dance Education Organization and a member of three other boards of directors. She also serves in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the first counselor in her stake Relief Society presidency and as ward organist.

She and her husband, David, have five children and 14 grandchildren.