Anna Mayta

Anna Mayta grew up in Chile is an Educator, dance improvisor, choreographer and dance artist. She graduated from Empire State College in June 2001 with a BA in Dance in Education. In November 2008, she received 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, New York. In October 2020 she was accepted to Bethany Arts Center residency in Ossining NY. Where she choreographed a solo dance inspired by the idea that men and women are equal. In 2022 she was awarded a grant from CREATE to choreograph a piece about the stories of the Latinx community in Hudson NY dealing with linguistic prejudice. In 2025 Anna was awarded a mentorship grant to strengthen her administrative skills with Arts in Education NYC roundtable. Ms. Mayta has developed 3 programs one is Spanish language through movement, the second one is fusion dance, which centers on the incorporation of African, Classical Indian, Flamenco, Chilean, Modern and Latin dance styles coming together as one and the third is transcending linguistic prejudice through movement. Anna has been teaching for 20+years and has taught at places such has Art Omi, Bethel Woods center for the arts and Caramoor music and cultural center. Anna has performed at Dixon place, Waxworks, and Spoke the Hub in NYC, in Bangalore India, Boston MA, Maine and around the Hudson Valley NY. She has choreographed for The National Ballet of Zimbabwe, Kuumba and drum dance company and Operation Unite youth dancers. Currently, Ms. Mayta directs her dance company, Mayta Fusion Dance. She teaches, choreographs, and performs throughout the Hudson Valley NY.