MAIYA REDDING BORN AND RAISED IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, HER DANCE TRAINING BEGAN AT THE CHICAGO MULTICULTURAL DANCE CENTER UNDER HOMER HANS BRYANT. SHE ATTENDED AND GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL FROM THE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS WHERE SHE MAJORED IN DANCE.

HER STUDIES TOOK HER TO PURCHASE, NY WHERE SHE GRADUATED CUM LAUDE FROM SUNY PURCHASE COLLEGE IN THE CONSERVATORY OF DANCE PROGRAM WHERE SHE RECEIVED A BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS DEGREE IN DANCE IN 2016. WHILE AT PURCHASE REDDING HAD THE PLEASURE OF TRAINING ABROAD FOR A SEMESTER AT KOREAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, IN SEOUL SOUTH KOREA. IN JULY 2016,

SHE RECEIVED THE “INNOVATIVE CHOREOGRAPHER AWARD” FROM “THE SERIES; VOLUME 1”, HOSTED BY BALLET, INC. FOR HER WORK “THOU ART LOOSED”.

IN APRIL 2018 SHE WAS ASKED TO BE A GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER FOR SUNY PURCHASE COLLEGE’S “SPRING FESTIVAL” AND HAD THE HONOR OF WORKING WITH THE FRESHMAN CLASS IN THE DANCE CONSERVATORY. HER PASSION FOR THE ART OF CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCE ARE EVIDENT IN HER ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE EMOTIONS, STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS THROUGH THE BEAUTY OF BODY MOVEMENT.