Visiting Artist Classes
Visiting Artists and Artists-In-Residence from Keshet’s Makers Space Experience and Presenting Voices programs often offer guest classes, workshops, and advanced classes while they are in Albuquerque. Check here for classes as they come up, or follow our social media!
All classes are on a sliding scale from $0-$20 per class.
How We Get Over [And Through]: Movement For This Moment
A guided movement ritual/divination/writing/storytelling/conjure practice for collective liberation stewarded by amara tabor-smith
Ages 16+
February 18, 2026
5:45-8:00pm
There will be dancing/We will move our bodies; there will be moments of restful pause; we will talk with each other and share stories and strategies for survival and thrivance; our ancestors might visit; there might be laughter, tears, joy, rage, grief, emotional or spiritual discomfort or ease; there will most certainly be breath.
Bring your bodies, your voice, your instruments, your stories, your spontaneous poems and your wild imaginations as we co create this space of play and possibility together. It might feel too long, it might feel too short, we will run out of time, it will only be a beginning.
amara tabor-smith (she/they)
Born in San Francisco, unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land, and based in Oakland, amara is a choreographer/performance maker and the artistic director of Deep Waters Dance Theater.
She describes her dance and performance making practice as Conjure Art. Her interdisciplinary site-specific and community responsive performance experiences utilize Yoruba Lukumí spiritual technologies to address issues of social and environmental justice, race, gender identity, and belonging. Her work is rooted in Black, queer, Afro futurist/surrealist, womanist principles, that insist on liberation, joy, home fullness and well-being.
In addition to her own work amara has also performed in the works of artists such as Ed Mock, Joanna Haigood, Ana Deveare Smith, Ronald K. Brown, Julie Tolentino, Adia Tamar Whitaker, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and Faustin Linyekula. She is the former associate artistic director and company member with Urban Bush Women, and was the co artistic director of Headmistress, a performance collaboration with Sherwood Chen.
amara is a 2024 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship award; a 2023 recipient of the American Academy of Religion’s Religion in the Arts Award; a 2021 inaugural recipient of the Rainin Fellowship; a 2020 recipient of the Hewlett 50 grant with East Side Arts Alliance; a 2019 Dance/USA Fellow; a 2018 United States Artist Fellow and a 2018 recipient of KQED’s “Bay Brilliant” award.
Rooted in her Oakland community, amara is a member of the Black Cultural Zone (BCZ) Arts and Culture working group in East Oakland. She is a co-founder of the Oakland Anti-Racist Organizing Committee (OAROC), a collaboration of BIPOC artists, activists and educators that holds space for individuals and organizations to address internalized structural racism. And she is the co-founder of Conjure and Mend, a creative sanctuary for survivors of Sex Trafficking in Oakland in partnership with sex trafficking abolitionist Regina Evans.
amara received her MFA in Dance from Hollins University and is an artist in residence at Stanford University.