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Dionne Kamara
Dionne Kamara is currently a teaching artist in New York City teaching dance to people of all ages. She is honored to also teach with her mentor Anne Green Gilbert at the Summer Dance Institute for teachers in Seattle, WA. For Dionne, dance is for everyone and anyone. She believes that by dancing together and trying on each other’s movements we gain a better understanding of one another and increase our capacity for working in collaboration with a wide range of people across disciplines.
Dionne Kamara started learning traditional Kumina dances as a child in Jamaica under her great-grandmother’s guidance. After moving to the United States she attended and graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts where she received the Helen Tamiris Award for excellence in dance, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center where she was a merit scholarship student. Her professional performing career includes working with choreographers Zvi Gotheiner, Man Hong Kang and Elisa King to name a few. In 1996 she was accepted into the world renowned dance company Urban Bush Women where she has toured nationally and internationally.