Want to Dance? Join Kinnect – An Outreach Dance Program in Local Schools!

Live Auditions: Tues, Nov. 17, 2020. Pre-register on patrack.byu.edu.

What is Kinnect?
Watch the new video.
View the official website.

We are an outreach group of artist-educators who love to connect dance to everything and everyone in the world around us.

“Kinnect is a lesser-known group of students at BYU that quietly exemplifies the university’s core mission of going forth to serve.” –Jacob Draper, Documentary Filmmaker

Dana Lambert, a current Dance Education major, shared the experience below. She was the student president of Kinnect in 2020, and she is getting ready to be a student teacher next semester. 

I LOVE Kinnect! I was privileged to dance with Kinnect right at the start of my BYU Dance experience, and it informed, supported, and motivated me through the ups and downs of the rigorous Dance Education program. It made such an impact on me that I auditioned again and looked forward to performing and teaching this Spring 2020, before the pandemic hit the world.

However, Kinnect is definitely not only for Dance Education majors – it is for anyone and everyone who loves creating, performing, and making an impact on the world around them. I made such good friends with the rest of the Kinnectors each time that I participated in the program.

For me, though, the best part was seeing the kids’ eyes light up when they saw the magic of the Kinnect Dance Company in action on the stage and especially when the kids realized that they, too, could dance as we learned and played together in workshops throughout the rest of the day.

Even with the health restrictions now in place, Kinnect is adapting in a magnificent way to still share the magic of dance with as many children as possible, and I couldn’t be more proud of (or excited for!) what they have planned.

Dancing and teaching with Kinnect was a life-changing experience, and I will ALWAYS recommend it.