Class Description:
Fusion Dance Technique: This is a fun and creative form of class that promotes fitness through various forms of world dance. I fuse traditional styles of dance from India, West Africa, Spain and Latin America, with modern technique. This work brings together different cultures and shows the linkages between seemingly different dance styles.

Bio:
Anna Mayta is a dance improviser, choreographer and teacher. She graduated from Empire State College in June 2001 with a BA in Dance in Education. November 2008 she got a certificate to teach yoga from Svyasa Swami Vivekananda Yoga University in Bangalore India. In 2006 she was awarded a dissemination award from the Dutchess County Arts Council in Poughkeepsie NY. She has been teaching, performing and choreographing for about 15 years. She has developed two programs one is teaching the Spanish Language through movement, second is fusion dance which is the incorporation of African, Classical Indian, Flamenco, Modern and Latin dance styles together as one. She has traveled for her work to Bangalore, Pune, Lucknow and Bombay in India. Taught for the National Ballet of Zimbabwe in Africa also in England and all over the greater Boston Area. Now she is currently working in upstate NY Hudson Valley area.

Her choreography credits include “Bienvenido, Svikai and Welcome” a dance with the professional dancers of the National Ballet of Zimbabwe. A solo called “Veiled”  (a metaphor for the plight of women in Afghanistan.) A trio called “I cry, I love, I miss you” with the dancers of the D’amby project a dance company based in Red Hook NY. Two duets choreographed in
collaboration with Gigi Oppenheimer called “The Wisdom Tree” and “Inner fire”. Her improvisational solos with titles such as; “Fusion,” and “Flamenco Fusion,” plus more where performed around Boston, Bangalore India and now Hudson Valley area in NY where she resides. She has danced with different groups in the greater Boston area including the Kelly Donovan and dancers, second with Karen Brey and her company.

Anna Mayta Fusion Dance
845-416-2605
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