For several years Kim was the executive Chair on the Board of directors for MTV’s America Best Dance Crew contestant, FR3SH Dance Troupe. Other credits include extensive training with her mentor, ARB and Omaha Ballet’s Leigh-Ann Roth, Martha Graham’s, Wendy Stein and New York City Ballet’s, Annie Ditmars. During this time she was the assistant choreographer and instructor for the Billboard Award winning, MTV’s “Choreographer of the Year” recipient and Broadway choreographer, Jamale Graves. There, she was involved with “Dance Power” a collaborative educational project sponsored by ARB and the New Brunswick Board of Education, with the late Gregory Hines as its honorary national Chair. Tam, a former assistant editor of Dance Magazine New York, spent five years as a Ballet and Contemporary Jazz choreographer/instructor for New Jersey’s prestigious, American Repertory Ballet’s, Princeton Ballet School. She performed with a contemporary Graham Company under the direction of Lynn Barr (Tour 510, Prague, Czech Republic) and with the European Phil Harmonic as the opening piece for the 10th Annual Music Festival “ Nights of Music,” (featured in Dance Teacher Magazine) alongside REQUIEM FUR BONHOEFFER, Germany’s Ricardo Viviani (Bohemia). Kimberly continued dancing, instructing, and performing throughout the country as well as Europe. Simultaneously, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Media and a minor in Communication Information Studies and graduated, cum laude from Rutgers University.
Kim later earned the title of Founder/Artistic Director for the Performance Company, American Dance Theatre, NJ. She started her performance experience as the captain of the Fast Trax Dance Company, originally know as Ballet La’ Jennesse. Kimberly Tam, born in New York City, began her dance training at The American School for the Performing Arts, affiliate to Steps on Broadway, The Mason Gross School of the Arts, and The State University of New York. Kimberly Tam – Owner/Director Intermediate/Advanced Ballet, Intermediate/Advanced Lyrical, Intermediate/Advanced Jazz, Intermediate/Advanced Pointe
Outside of being fantastic dancers, instructors, choreographers, and performers, our teachers are simply incredible people and wonderful friends.
RUTGERS AIM HIGH ACADEMY 20Q4 HOWARD PROFESSIONAL
Kim and Amy are incredibly blessed to have such a talented, caring, beautiful, and professional group of instructors. Corrections, repetition, safety, positive reinforcement and style adaption is our norm in every class. Our instructors focus heavily on proper execution/technique, commitment to creativity, appropriate performance quality, and constantly challenging their own as well as our student’s limits. Here, at AIM Academy we heavily promote continual education and professional performance opportunities for our staff. Each of our faculty members have extensive credentials, professional experience, and knowledge within their genre of the dance world. Arts In Motion Academy takes great pride in the education and service provided to our dedicated students and their family’s.
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