About Ronya

A former member of the Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble, and annual guest artist with Dance for All Youth Company in Capetown, South Africa, Ronya-Lee has traveled extensively teaching, dancing, and choreographing.

She has performed lead roles in productions at the Arena Stage, Ford’s Theater, the National Theater, the Kennedy Center, and Dance Place. Her choreography has been presented at the Publick Playhouse, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, THEARC, the Harman Center and in churches throughout the United States, South Africa and Ecuador.

She conducts workshops annually throughout the United States and has also created sacred dance curriculum for various ministries and organizations. Ronya-Lee is Artistic Director for Dancing by the Power Ministries, a non-profit sacred dance organization. She currently teaches at Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mt. Rainer, Maryland and the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Every summer since 2006, Ronya-Lee has led seminars on the art of sacred dance for the Duke Youth Academy in Durham, North Carolina. She is an adjunct artist with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.  She also dances with Carla Perlo’s Carla and Company.