Tamara Jones is a dancer and choreographer born & raised in Jamaica, New York. She has been a member of several different dance companies. To name a few, her longest dance career has been with Harambee Dance Company and Umoja Dance Company. Throughout her dance career, Tamara has had the opportunity to perform on many stages and venues.  Those stages include Symphony Space, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), for Essence Magazine Events, Summer Stage, the International African Arts Street Festival, New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) and Broadway Dance Center’s Tribute to Savion Glover 2005. Tamara Jones also choreographed for Jona Briddle, “The Jonah Show,” Tribute to hip hop pioneer and Brickhouse Studios Founder Kelly Peters at AlvinAiley Citigroup Theatre. This perfornance consisted of Traditional African Dance with Live drums for his travel team the “Boss Kids.” Tamara was also given the honor of performing for the Late Rita Owens, (Queen Latifah’s mother) amongst company members in her remembrance, March 2018. In 2020, she was a featured dancer in the Grammy Award Singing artist Angelique Kidjoe & Bass Player Michael Olatuja's collaboration "Lagos Pepper Soup."
 
Apart from dance,, Tamara Jones has explored a career in acting. She was a dancer in the Indi Film “The Magnificent Cooley T,” starring Jackie Long and Tiearra Marie released Spring 2016 produced by Steven Leeds. She was in “A Meyers Christmas,” movie produced by Will Packer and directed by David E. Talbert (2017) as a praise worshiper in the church scene.  She has also explored reality TV and has been seen on television shows such as "Black Ink Crew" and Dr. Oz.

Ms. Jones spreads her passion for dance as she currently teaches West African, Afrobeats, Tap and Hip Hop to ages 6 and up. Presently she is a Sub Traditional African dance teacher at Broadway Dance Center, Sub teaches Afrobeats at Peridance, teaches Afrobeats at Ripley Grier Studio and formerly taught at Grammy Award Winning Artist Chrisette Michelle’s dance studio RH Studios.

Join her as she spreads her passion for dance throughout the tristate area and globally.