Tara Brown
Bio
Tara Brown is a professional Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher and Certified Life Coach from Brooklyn, New York. She started dancing at the age of three but began her serious training at the age of nine at The School at STEPS. By the age of twelve, Tara became one of the youngest members of Dancewave Company, a repertory dance company where she performed the works of Mark Morris, David Dorfman, Donald Byrd, Doug Varone and Trisha Brown.
Tara attended the Professional Performing Arts School where she trained at the well-known Alvin Ailey Dance School. After high school, Tara attended The University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and graduated in 2013 where she obtained her BFA in Dance and BS in Psychology. While at UMass, she performed the works of Mark Morris, Camille A. Brown, Ohad Naharin and more. Tara’s own choreography, Whitewash, was also selected to be performed and adjudicated at ACDFA. She has performed for and continues to train with former Beyonce dancers Shirlene Quigley, Aisha Francis and Olivia Cipolla. She was also most recently Associate Choreographer for Broadway Bares, an annual Broadway fundraiser performance. Tara has danced for A$AP Rocky, Gladys Knight, Cindy Salgado of Kidd Pivot and in Whitney Houston's biopic movie, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, set to premiere in theaters December 2022.
Currently, Tara Brown is an Assistant Professor of Dance at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and teaches heels classes at Boston's Dance Complex studio. She offers twice-weekly classes, monthly workshops, and professional opportunities to her students pursuing performance careers. Since obtaining her certification as a Life and Career Coach in 2020, she has been able to combine her knowledge and experiences to give her dancers the resources and encouragement to navigate the dance industry successfully and confidently.
IG: @iam_tarabrown
Class Description
Intermediate/Advanced Heels: Int/Adv Heels is open to dancers with previous dance experience and heels training. My class begins with a warm up consisting of crunches, isolations and stretches. We then move on to find our bevels and then spend the remainder of the class learning and practicing a heels combination.
Upcoming Classes
Tara Brown Love & War
