Anwesha Das

Anwesha Das is an Indian Bharatanatyam dancer, teacher, and artistic director based in Seattle, Washington. A senior disciple of Guru Urmila Satyanarayana, she is trained in the Vazhuvoor bani (style) of Bharatanatyam. She is the founder and artistic director of Natya Shakti, a Bharatanatyam school in Bothell, Washington, and serves on the board of the Chamber of Indian Performing Arts (CIPA), a non-profit organisation supporting Indian classical performing artists in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

Das has performed at major venues including the Music Academy in Chennai, the Khajuraho Dance Festival, the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) in Mumbai, and the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival in the United States. She is an empaneled artist with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and a graded artist of Doordarshan, India's national television.