Jump Start 2026

You don’t have to be a dancer to provide highly engaging dance opportunities in your afterschool program. The arts are a great way to target at-risk youth to reshaping their paths to positively express themselves. Participants will move and groove in learning how a dance program can be designed and promoted to fully engage youth in afterschool. Backed up by the most recent arts in afterschool research, attendees will see how a dance program can impact youth and walk away knowing how to teach a routine, provide stage performance tips, understand the realities of the dance industry, how to get youth engaged in their community through dance, and how to positively expose youth to the dance world. Let’s dance!