Mission Statement: I am a purpose-driven artist, choreographer, and compassionate instructor committed to uniting communities, spreading joy, and teaching self-empowerment through dance. I aspire to create movements of original, emotive, and inspiring quality with my dance artistry. Through dance education, I train my dancers to be well versed in technique, step into their confidence, and shine both on and off stage.

Enakshi Vyas is the Artistic Director and Founder of Elite Naach Academy.

A Marin County native herself, she has trained and taught throughout the Bay Area in a variety of styles including but not limited to Jazz, Tap, Kathak, Bharata Natyam, West African Dance, Ballet, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Indian Folk styles, and Bollywood dance. Her primary formal training occurred under the direct guidance of Pandit Chitresh Das in Kathak as part of his original Youth Company. After which, she was accepted at the University of California, Los Angeles World Arts and Cultures Dance program. Enakshi has since served as guest faculty for Dominican University Dance Department, the Marin School of the Arts, Marin Academy, Dance Attack Los Gatos, Noorani Dance Company, and the Performing Arts Academy of Marin. She brings a fresh touch to traditional forms of movement by mixing her diverse range of styles into choreography.

Since the inception of Elite Naach Academy Enakshi’s had the privilege of working with Shakti Mohan, Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, Manpreet Toor, Sneha Mistri, Anna Dimitratou, and a variety of other artists through tours, collaborations, and classes world wide. Her company bookings have taken her to the Bollywood & Multicultural Festival in Greece, various stages in Los Angeles, New York, London, Toronto, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Denver, Jodhpur, and of course around the San Francisco, Bay Area.

As the director of E.N.A. she instructs a variety of stylistic backgrounds and cultures, providing her students with a more complex and diverse dance curriculum. In addition to these duties, she is also a dance instructor and choreographer for Kid Stock Inc. and a performer with Noorani Dance Company.

However, her favorite title by far, is the Artistic Director of E.N.A.