Baye & Asa

Baye & Asa is a company creating movement art projects directed & choreographed by Amadi ‘Baye’ Washington & Sam ‘Asa’ Pratt. We grew up together in New York City, and that shared educational history is the mother of our work. Hip Hop & African dance languages are the foundation of our technique.  The rhythms of these techniques inform the way we energetically confront contemporary dance, theater, and film. We’ve presented our work at The Joyce Theater, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Pioneer Works, The 92nd Street Y, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, ODC, b12 festival, Blacklight Summit, and Battery Dance Festival. We were selected as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2022, and are recipients of Dance Magazine’s 2023 Harkness Promise Award. We’ve created works for rep companies that include The Martha Graham Dance Company, BODYTRAFFIC, and Alvin Ailey II. Our film work has won numerous awards and has been presented internationally.