Zamora Tamminga

Zamora Tamminga (she/her) is a creator, performer, teacher, and facilitator based in New York, NY. Zamora is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, where she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Studies. In her time at the university, Zamora choreographed multiple musical theatre and contemporary dance works, including MUSKET Productions’ Catch Me if You Can, and Impact Arts’ The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin. She has trained in collegiate-level Horton and Humphrey modern techniques, ballet, improvisation, jazz, floorwork, screendance, and various commercial styles, working with educators including Judy Rice, Shannon Gillen, Grace Bergonzi, and Jillian Hopper. She has performed and learned work for Charli Brissey, Ginny Jiang, and Maleek Washington, among others. Zamora also has university-level pedagogical training for students of all levels and ages. She employs a culturally-responsive, consent-based teaching approach. Zamora currently teaches and choreographs to children ages 5-17, where she instructs and creates in jazz, ballet, musical theatre, lyrical, contemporary, and hip hop styles. Zamora values an interdisciplinary approach to art creation, intertwining music, acting, and screendance in her projects. Her artmaking is a medium for storytelling, heavily incorporating narrative structures and characterwork.