Lee Wakefield

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

Lee Wakefield is the Chair of the Dance Department and Artistic Director of the award winning Ballroom Dance Company at BYU.

Wakefield graduated from BYU in 1977 with a BA in Recreation Administration, and in 1982 with an MA in Dance.

Wakefield and his wife Linda are former U.S. Theater Arts Champions. Over the past thirty years they have been instrumental in the growth of the Ballroom Dance program at Brigham Young University, serving as directors of the world famous BYU Ballroom Dance Company.

In 2009, National Dance Association presented Lee and Linda Wakefield with the Heritage Award for their accomplishments and lifetime dedication to ballroom dance. The Heritage Award is the highest honor that NDA bestows on an artist for a lifetime dedicated to dance education excellence.