Amara Tabor-Smith [SEP] occupation
Amara Tabor-Smith
Amara Tabor-Smith (born 1965) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based choreographer and performer noted for significant contributions to dance that draw on, celebrate, and reconfigure African-American and women's history.
Tabor-Smith spent a decade as a dancer, then Associate Artistic Director with the internationally acclaimed Urban Bush Women dance company of New York City, where she was a part of developing the company's early community engagement methodologies. As founder of Deep Waters Dance Theater, she creates
Martinez Studio (Wence Martinez, Sandra Martinez), Warren Newton Seelig, Patti Warashina
- Dance: Oguri, Okwui Okpo kwasili, Allison Orr, Bill Shannon, Amara Tabor-Smith
- Media: Starlee Kine, Terence Nance, Elaine McMillion Sheldon, TNEG (Elissa Blount Moorhead, Arthur Jafa, Malik Sayeed)
- Music: Terence Blanchard, Amir ElSaffar, Ruthie Foster, Tania León, Danilo Pérez, Toshi Reagon, Wayne Shorter, Somi, Tyshawn Sorey
- Theater & Performance: Luis Alfaro,