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Piyali Biswas De is a Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, instructor, artistic entrepreneur, and IT professional in the Greater Seattle region. Classically trained in Bharatanatyam from Kolkata, India, she is known for her versatility, creativity, passion and physical fitness. She is also trained in Rabindranritya, a dance form created in Bengal by the first non-European literature Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore. She founded Dance Tantra, an Indian dance academy based in Greater Seattle region to promote Bharatanatyam, Rabindranritya and Indian Classical contemporary dance. In 2019, Piyali also founded Sadhana, a non-profit organization dedicated in highlighting and exploring ways art forms can be used to create social campaigns and awareness to impact the community.

Education and Training
Biswas De pursued a robust higher education, earning her MA in Economics Jadavpur University, and later did a specialization in MPHIL Women’s Studies at Jadavpur University. She later attended the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education in Hyderbad. She furthered her education in the US, doing an online Software Testing course in the University of Washington, and a Business Analytics program from the Wharton School of Business.

Biswas De was classically trained under Anita Mullick and Guru Thankammi Kutty(Sangeet Natak Akademy Amrit winner). She recently took advanced Abinaya training from Smt Priyadarshini Govind ( Sangeet Natak Akademy winner) who founded non profit Navadarshana.