Bidisha Dasgupta has been dancing since the age of 4. As the past Dance Director of  New York City-based multicultural dance and theatre nonprofit eyeBLINK she worked with artists of various disciplines to curate and produce the 2007-08 Rhythms Showcase series.  She also took part in eyeBLINK’s Collaborative Movement Project  pairing Indian classical with Western modern dance and performed with a spoken word artist in Stripped Boundaries.   In New York she has also presented her original choreography at the Arya Dance Academy, Times Square Initiative, The Women's Mosaic, Fordham University, Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), PMT, Steps on Broadway and in several festivals and showcases. She created and performed a Bharatanatyam piece for the space-themed Saving Hubble documentary film fundraiser and has guest lectured about Indian classical dance at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Rowan University.  In 2008 she was an invited performer at a Durga Puja celebration in Kolkata, India.  She was selected by the Philadelphia Community Education Center (CEC) as a New Edge Mix Artist for the 2009-2010 season, receiving financial and production support  to create a new  work.  Bidisha was the guest judge at Drexel University's NASHA '10 performance competition.

An Indian classical dancer by training, Bidisha is also proficient in several other dance styles and is an avid choreographer. She studied Bharatanatyam at the Nrityanjali School of Dance (Boston) under guru Smt Jothi Raghavan and completed her arangetram (dance graduation) in 1990. For several years she was a member of the Srijan Dance Company (Boston) which specialized in the Amala Shankar style of Indian modern dance. During her undergraduate years at Case Western Reserve University Bidisha choreographed and performed in many Indian classical, bhangra, folk, western modern and competitive ballroom dance shows, garnering several awards.

Bidisha recently moved to Philadelphia and is eager to collaborate with local artists to create exciting new works and get involved in the city’s vibrant dance scene.