Samara has been a teaching artist at Destiny Arts Center since 2011, where she teaches hip hop dance and movement in schools and communities throughout the Bay Area. She uses movement as a somatic tool and connective access point, and has also taught within the juvenile justice system in San Leandro, CA. Samara believes that movement and dance connect people across differences and boundaries, and knows that through movement, youth and adults are able to access and channel their emotions, communicate their experiences more clearly, connect with others, and empower and authentically express themselves in ways that allow them to thrive.
Samara has been featured in news articles, music videos, a poetry book, and was a dance journalist for Dance Studio Life magazine. She co-founded Mix'd Ingrdnts, an all female-identified, multi-ethnic performance company, that exists to empower womxn, youth, and the community to express themselves through performance and dance education.
In line with her youthwork, Samara has co-launched and co-lead Power of Hope Bolinas since 2015, and been a lead-facilitator for Partners of Youth Empowerment's Global Creative Facilitation Training. She not only focuses on educating through dance in her classes at In the Groove Studios, but also uses dance as a philosophy in the application of life.
Through Alphabet Rockers, Mix'd Ingrdnts, Destiny Arts Center, and her own mantra in life, Samara engages in, creates, and produces content that positively impacts social change and creates spaces for people to be seen, heard, & understood.
Samara has been featured in news articles, music videos, a poetry book, and was a dance journalist for Dance Studio Life magazine. She co-founded Mix'd Ingrdnts, an all female-identified, multi-ethnic performance company, that exists to empower womxn, youth, and the community to express themselves through performance and dance education.
In line with her youthwork, Samara has co-launched and co-lead Power of Hope Bolinas since 2015, and been a lead-facilitator for Partners of Youth Empowerment's Global Creative Facilitation Training. She not only focuses on educating through dance in her classes at In the Groove Studios, but also uses dance as a philosophy in the application of life.
Through Alphabet Rockers, Mix'd Ingrdnts, Destiny Arts Center, and her own mantra in life, Samara engages in, creates, and produces content that positively impacts social change and creates spaces for people to be seen, heard, & understood.
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