Hayiya Dance Theatre Inc

Our mission at Hayiya Dance Theatre, Inc. (HDT) is to educate, entertain and engage the community by providing opportunities for cultural arts enrichment and exposure.  Under the leadership of Artistic Director and founder, Pilar Wilder Lowden, Hayiya specializes in authentic and progressive West African dance and percussion as well as dances of the Diaspora. 

HDT is a professional dance and percussion ensemble comprised on accomplished women and men, boys and girls.  Organized on the campus of Wesleyan College in August of 1997 as a dance club, HDT, now in its 24th season is Middle Georgia's oldest West African dance ensemble.