Raised in Lee NH, Ayan began tap dancing in local dance studios as a child. His first company experience was at the age of 13 when Ayan joined the New England Tap Ensemble directed by Aaron Tolson. At the age of 17, Ayan began touring across North America with dance companies, Atlantic Steps, Tap Kids and Tapestry. Ayan has gained the education from world renowned teachers through awarded scholarship opportunities to tap dance festivals such as Tap City, D.C. Tapfest, Beantown Tapfest and Jacob's Pillow School of Dance. In 2012 Ayan was awarded with the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts with blues musician and educator, TJ Wheeler. With this grant, it was a pinnacle education in the value of the connection between the dance and the music. A cultural root based through instinctual human experience, tap dance is as necessary an instrument to American music as the jazz drummer is to the evolution of American music. Since working with Wheeler, Ayan has strived to perform throughout New England bringing the music and the dance to those who support it.