The Founder
Nadim Cherfan
Founder · Choreographer
Beirut-born architect of the company's visual language. Built The Mayyas from a Lebanese studio into a two-time golden-buzzer act.
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Lebanon · Choreographed by Nadim Cherfan
The proud walkof a lioness.
The Mayyas are Lebanon's all-female precision dance company — thirty-six dancers who move as one body, one breath, one nation raising its arms toward the light.
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Dancers · One Body
Chapter I · Origin
A word from home, rewritten in motion.
Mayyās — the proud walk of a lioness. A name carried out of Arabic and set down on stages from Beirut to Los Angeles.
Founded and choreographed by Nadim Cherfan, the company is an alternative precision dance troupe of thirty-six women who translate Lebanese memory into geometry — arms as calligraphy, silence as tempo, discipline as devotion.
"You planted hope and light in all of our hearts."— President Michel Aoun
Chapter II · Chronicle
Moments that held the world still.
- 2019
Arabs Got Talent
First place. A crown from the region that raised them.
- 2019
Britain's Got Talent: The Champions
Reaching the semifinals in front of the world.
- 2022
America's Got Talent, Season 17
Champions. Sofía Vergara's Golden Buzzer. A nation held its breath.
- 2022
Lebanese Order of Merit
Awarded by President Michel Aoun in appreciation of the troupe's artistry.
- 2023
Atlantis The Royal, Dubai
On stage with Beyoncé at the opening of the year.
- 2025
Cowboy Carter Tour · Stade de France
Reunited with Beyoncé in Paris — a homecoming in another language.
- 2026
Yankee Stadium · Jay-Z Residency Finale
Beyoncé's surprise 'Drunk in Love' — choreographed alongside the lionesses to close the night.
Chapter III · Craft
Precision as a language of the body.
Every formation is a script. Every hand — a syllable. The company builds images at the edge of illusion: mandalas, tides, thrones of arms that seem to breathe on their own.
- Dancers
- 36
- Countries Toured
- 20+
- Founded
- 2018
- Golden Buzzers
- 2
A mandala of thirty-six.
Plate I
Hand-beaded, hand-sewn.
Plate II"We rehearse a single move until the thirty-six of us forget where one body ends and the next begins."
Management
Lea Ghorayeb
Manager · The Mayyas
Runs the day-to-day of the company from Beirut — bookings, productions, and the logistics of moving thirty-six dancers across the world.
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"This is what
Lebanese talent
looks like."
Lebanese talent
looks like."
The Mayyas · Golden Buzzer Night · 2022
Coda · Invite
Open your stage
to the lionesses.
For galas, openings, tours, and cultural residencies worldwide. Direct requests to the artistic office, managed by Lea Ghorayeb.