Tara Samaya recently toured with GUTS to Guadalajara, Mexico for The Perception Experiment, which she premiered for Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs in 2017.

In 2019, Tara won Helpmann and Greenroom Award for Best Female Dancer in Australia for her work in Chunkymoves’ Common Ground. Dancing with the Chunky Move since 2012 Tara has performed in Rule of Thirds, Depth of Field, Complexity of Belonging, 247 Days, Anti— Gravity and in 2018 Common Ground. Tara was appointed Chunky Move’s Artistic Associate in 2016 assisting with creation/rehearsal directorship of LUCID a Greenroom award winning production, conducted public programs & curated film event Frames for Change. 

Her collaborative dance film productions with The Samaya Wives were awarded an Australian Dance Award for Best Dance on Film in 2017 and won the International 60second Dance Film Competition in 2016 in both Denmark and Finland.