Riya Devi-Ashby Dance

I offer high quality entertainment paired with education and cultural exchange with my audience, helping them appreciate the poetic content of South Asian Arts. This includes a range of performance options such as a classical dance performance, a bollywood fusion performance, or an interactive workshop experience. A typical show itinerary would include;

Introduction and brief explanation of the dance's meaning/translation- 3 minutes
Dance- anywhere from 5 to 40 minutes, depending on the event's needs
Bows and Question/Answer with the audience

Riya Devi-Ashby was born in 2001 in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 2023, she received her BA in Studio Art from Wesleyan University with a concentration in painting and mixed media installation. She has trained for over 16 years in Kuchipudi with her guru Nilimma Devi, and is part of the third generation of Indian Classical Dance choreographers in her family. She also has experience in Bharatnatyam, Jazz, Bollywood dance, and martial arts. She has performed at venues all over the East Coast and abroad, including the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Arts, Dance Place in DC, Jaipur, India, and the Dora Stratou in Athens. She currently teaches and choreographs with the Sutradhar Institute of Dance and Related Arts.

Staging requirements: flat, even stage safe for dancing barefoot, at least 10 ft x 6ft area
Sound requirements: Speakers with Bluetooth compatibility, or aux cable and Iphone aux to lightning port adapter