KDA combines dance and education with Books in Motion program

The Kern Dance Alliance is hosting its seventh annual Books in Motion program, made to improve literacy throughout Kern County through dance.

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00:00 Well, this is pretty cool. The current dance alliance is hosting their seventh

00:04 annual books in motion program, and this is made to improve literacy

00:08 throughout Kern County through dance. 23 abc's Ava Kirshner joins us live in

00:13 studio to tell us more for this week's books in motion spotlight. Oh yeah,

00:18 that's right. Brian books in motion performers. Dat crew are one of the

00:22 groups doing shows across libraries in Kern County, telling stories through

00:26 their choreography. But they tell me their main goal is to inspire.

00:30 Our whole team is like a big family that like left to inspire people. You

00:40 know, meet dat crew, a nonprofit organization founded back in 2014

00:45 teaching young dancers how to express themselves for almost 10 years. We do

00:50 major at clown dancing, we do hip hop and we also do cramp issue style dance.

00:56 We just embrace what we do and love inspiring the youth and let them

01:00 express themselves through art and different types of dancing. So they

01:04 learn pretty much a lot of different type of dancing, not just what we give

01:08 them. That crew has multiple performances at libraries across Kern

01:11 County for the current dance alliance books in motion program. By bringing

01:15 the stories to life, they help Children understand the books without having to

01:19 read them by being creative through their character representations and

01:23 movement. It's important because it's awesome to bring the books to life and

01:28 then so the kids could get more of an understanding of what they're reading.

01:31 Like, oh, okay, there's, there's an animal over there and they're dancing

01:34 and they're doing this type of movement. So they'll be more interested in

01:37 reading and learning more about the book. That crew created a dance for

01:41 these performances, which they gave me a little lesson on how to do

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02:00 these dancers have been working hard and traveling all around the county for

02:05 the performances, but they don't mind because dancing to inspire is what they

02:09 love to do. What I love to do is learn new things. What I love about dancing

02:15 is we could practice and practice makes better and we can make people follow

02:20 the dreams. What I love about this is that I could inspire other people to

02:25 dance.

02:26 Now, 23 abc is a proud sponsor of books in motion and every week we will

02:32 continue to shine a light on these performers to follow along. You can

02:36 tune in on air and online at turn to 23 dot com live in studio. Ava Kirschner,

02:40 23 abc News connecting you.