Kids Dance Outreach (KDO) celebrates 10 years for bringing high-quality arts education to children of all backgrounds and abilities in Indianapolis area, regardless of their ability to pay.
INDIANAPOLIS — Breaking down barriers and providing opportunities to shine — that's what one local organization in the Indianapolis area strives to do every day for children in the community.
Johnson and the KDO community are celebrating 10 years of serving children across central Indiana this year, and the program continues to grow with waitlists for them to come into schools. Kaufmann says a parent to a child with Down Syndrome, it can be difficult to find opportunities to take part in activities where your child can shine. But they found a home for Atlas and a community through KDO.
A big part of showcasing the value of KDO to the community lies in the hands of their Community Engagement Coordinator, Dana Vanderburgh, who says she grew up with a dancing background. But KDO works to bring the joy of dance to all children. "Our musicians are matching what is happening in the classroom. They are communicating with our teaching artists. If we're doing big movement, they make the music really loud. If we're doing soft movement, they quiet it down, They kind of hold little spaces with kind of interludes in between so that the music doesn't stop," said Vanderburgh.
"Sometimes what we see is a child that was really struggling at school or really struggling in academics or really struggling with behavior. Oftentimes, when they come to our program. We don't know their backstory, we don't know that they've maybe been labeled by some of their classmates as the one that's not good at math or the one that gets in trouble a lot.
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