Mentoring through Art
Kenyatta Kelly
Dance for Life
Kenyatta Kelly is a certified Zumba instructor and is developing a creative contemporary dance program for ARTreach that promotes a healthier lifestyle. Her Mentoring through Art program incorporates fitness as a natural part of child's life, not just as a class that they attend once a week. She teaches that a healthy lifestyle includes proper health and nutrition, leadership, respect, teamwork, pride, confidence, and responsibility. The dance and movement helps develop coordination, balance, discipline, memory, and creativity. She is currently involved in a project supporting children at risk in an after-school program offered by Making it Better. Funding was made possible through a partnership with Making it Better, ARTreach and The Texas Commission on the Arts.