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.
[3] As founder of Deep Waters Dance Theater, she creates choreographic work rooted in ritual and exploring issues facing people of color and the environment.
These include Ed Mock, Joanna Haigood of Zaccho Dance Theatre, Pearl Ubungen, Ronald K. Brown, Liz Lerman, Faustin Linyekula, Anne Bluethenthal, Adia Tamar Whitaker and Sara Shelton Mann.
She has also performed in the works of theater artists Anna Deavere Smith, Aya de Leon, Herbert Siquenza, The SF Mime Troupe, and Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
Her work with DWDT and Headmistress has been performed at Espaço Xisto in Salvador, Bahia; Rue Danse Festival in Brazzaville, Congo; Judson Memorial Church and Movement Research in New York City as well as many venues throughout the San Francisco/Bay Area.