Ronyah Lee
Ronya-Lee LaVaune Anderson, known professionally as Ronya-Lee of Ronya-Lee and the Light Factory, is a Caribbean-American folk-soul singer-songwriter and dancer-choreographer from Washington, DC.
Born of Jamaican immigrants, she spent her formative years moving between school plays, church services and bashment parties.
She continued her education, obtaining a Master's of Divinity from Duke University and an MFA in Dance from Maryland University.
My work lives at the intersection of dance and theater; employing West African, modern, and Jamaican folk dance, original music and storytelling.
I value listening.
I value people and their experiences.
I value collaboration.
I value Blackness. I value nuance. I value truths.
These values shape my work. I hope that as participants and witnesses engage with my work, they emerge with new, more nuanced ways of being.
I make work that embraces complexity and exists in the grey.
