Dance Alumna Kay Rediers '81 receives awards from Mich. Dance Council and Mich. Youth Arts...
Kay Rediers is a 2013 recipient of the Touchstone Award for Excellence from Michigan Youth Arts and is named Educator of the Year by the Michigan Dance Council. Touchstone awardees represent the best teachers and advocates in arts education who endow Michigan's children with a lifelong capacity for innovation. Recipients have a record of advocacy for arts programs, dedication to bringing out the very best in their students and a continued commitment to artistic excellence. Rediers is director of dance at Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills. She earned her bachelor's degree in dance at Wayne State University in 1981. She receives both awards at the annual Michigan Youth Arts Festival in May.