Together in the Arts: Zam Dance with Jackie Zamora
The Together in the Arts Series was designed to make the arts more accessible to our community, providing programming during the day, that is interactive, engaging all of our senses that is entertaining and inspiring for people of all ages and abilities. Please join us! ZamDance is about empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by creating a safe and supportive space where they can explore the art of dance and enhance their physical and emotional well-being. Let’s bring JOY and HAPPINESS through music and dance.
“What particularly impressed me about the instructor was not only her obvious zest for bringing dance to our special kids, but the way she identified which kids were not fully understanding or engaging at times, and how she gently but enthusiastically approached them and brought them back into the fold to enhance every child’s participation. She gives individual focus within the overall dance class so every child is attended to, and the moves are so fun and invigorating that many parents found themselves joining in because they simply couldn’t sit still with all the energy in the room!” Whitney Ellenby, Autism Ambassadors.
Jacqueline Zamora, the founder of ZamDance, resides in Maryland, and for over ten years has worked professionally in a variety of capacities with children with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Raised in Brooklyn, New York she developed a passion for dance and exercise. As a dancer and certified aerobics instructor, she has worked at the Bally Fitness Gym and at the Marriott World Trade Center Gym. She trained in Jazz and African dance at the Broadway Dance Center and at the Djoniba Dance Studio in New York City, performed in England with Julie Tolentino’s show entitled, ” Mestiza, What Beautiful Eyes You Have,” and collaborated with French Choreographer, David Rousseve at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She was also the Director of Choreography/dancer for the Shaun Singh Productions Broadway show entitled, RANG, Shades of my Soul.
