If you’re looking for a music teacher who will inspire your child’s love for learning and creativity, Tara Ahmed is the one. I highly recommend her!!!”
Juni Kobayashi, Artistic Director, Odaiko New England
Tara currently teaches early childhood music classes. She works with infants, toddlers and preschoolers at Rock and Roll Daycare, Cambridge, with preschoolers at Horizons for Homeless Children, Boston, with pre-K students at Webster Extension School, Everett, and with families at Children's Music Center in Jamaica Plain.
Tara is an arts educator with a great love for dance, music and teaching. For decades, she worked as a dancer, primarily in classical Indian dance techniques. She has performed and given dance/lecture demonstrations and workshops in schools, museums, and cultural institutions in Brazil, Colombia, India, Turkey, and the U.S.
Tara has collaborated with artists across disciplines and has performed the title role in a Bank of America Celebrity Series production. Her television appearances include WGBH's DanceFest and Greater Boston Arts. Tara founded and directed Lasandhi Dance Theater, which performed throughout New England, including Jacob's Pillow.
Tara teaches dance to middle schoolers at Shady Hill School in Cambridge. She piloted her Movement Together class for families last year, merging her work in different dance forms and in education with children and families.
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Tara studied classical Indian dance with Neena Gulati at the Triveni School of Dance in Brookline (where she subsequently taught for 15 years), and with Anuradha Jonnalagadda in Hyderabad, India. She also studied West African dance in Boston and did a year-long apprenticeship with Ballet Sangomar in Dakar, Senegal. Tara completed an apprenticeship in Japanese (taiko) drumming with Odaiko New England (O.N.E.), and subsequently performed with them for five years. She currently performs in school lecture/demonstrations with O.N.E.
Tara studied Modern Dance at Harvard and received a cum laude Bachelor's Degree in Dance Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has also worked in arts administration at the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and in Early Childhood Education with the Cambridge Public Schools.
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Tara has worked as a teaching artist at many organizations including the Boch Center in their Interactive Stories program, and at the American Repertory Theater in their puppetry outreach program.