Educational Fundraising Campaign

Amara Tabor Smith

Join us on Sunday, May 18th from 4:30 – 6:00pm

at the Joe Goode Studio Annex  to show support and appreciation for Amara Tabor Smith.

Amara  and friends will dance and  food will be shared.

$40 Adults, $15 children  Any donation welcome, no one turned away.

Amara Tabor Smith has been accepted into a  unique program offered by Hollins University that allows her to apply her life experience in dance toward the attainment of an accredited MFA degree.

A Low Residency, Two-Summer Track program, it is designed for mid-career artists, teachers and dance professionals who must study in a limited time frame that accommodates their employment performance schedule.

It is our community’s intention to supplement the grants and fellowships Amara’s received and secure the funding needed for this educational program.

Amara’s statement:

After many years of dancing, performing and teaching dance I have decided to fulfill a long standing dream to pursue my MFA in Dance at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. This program that takes place over the next two summers will allow me to keep living, teaching and making dance work in the Bay Area while providing me with the structure, academic and artistic stimulation I seek at this point in my career to deepen my studies and advance as an educator and choreographer in the field of dance.

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BIOGRAPHY-Amara Tabor-Smith

San Francisco born, Oakland based. She began her career in the Bay Area as a member of The Ed Mock Dance Company and has worked with other choreographers and companies such as Anne Bluethenthal, Priscilla Regalado, Pearl Ubungen, Jacinta Vlach/Liberation Dance Theater, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Ase Dance Theater Collective and Joanna Haigood/ Zaccho Dance Theater. Amara is the former Associate Artistic Director and dancer with The Urban Bush Women Dance Company of New York City (1996-2006). Her background in theater includes work with artists such as, Anna Deveare Smith, Herbert Siquenza, The SF Mime Troupe, Make A Circus Aya de Leon and Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Amara Choreographed Shakti Butler’s documentary film, “Making Whiteness Visible” in which she also appears as a dancer. She has taught at Naropa University in Boulder, CO., University of Omaha, NE., Columbia College in Chicago, The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM , Berkeley High School and is currently a Lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. This year, 2014, Amara celebrates 30 years as dance teacher at San Francisco’s Rhythm and Motion where she  encourages everyone to unleash their wildest selves during her class.