Sayat Asatryan was born in Yerevan, Armenia and trained in Russia at the Voronezh Ballet school and St. Peterburg Ballet Academy. He received a comprehensive arts and humanities education at the St. Petersburg Ballet Academy and Voronezh Ballet Academy with the Master Degree in Dance and Arts. Additionally, he completed Certified Performing Arts Executive program from University of New Orleans focused on the management aspects of performing arts tour booking and presenting. He has been dancing professionally in the United States and throughout the world over the past 25 years. He was a principal ballet dancer with the Moscow Kremlin Ballet and guest artist with Bolshoi Ballet, touring internationally in South America, Europe, Japan and US.

Currently, he enjoys teaching and choreographing for Encinitas Ballet Academy and continue his training at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy Pedagogy Institute. Mr. Asatryan has performed with Festival Ballet Theatre many times