Swati Bhise is a Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, educator, producer, director, writer and promoter of the arts.
15 Facts About Swati Bhise
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Swati Bhise worked on the Indian choreography for Thomas Mann's The Transposed Heads, adapted by Sidney Goldfarb and Julie Taymor.
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Swati Bhise served as an artist in residence at the Brearley School, New York City, from 1991 to 2006 and founded the non-profit Sanskriti Center for Indian arts in education for children and adolescents.
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Swati Bhise continues to teach for The Curriculum in Arts Program at Symphony Space and has been a Lincoln Center Institute repertory artist since 1996.
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Swati Bhise has performed at hundreds of public and private schools, colleges, and universities across The United States including Columbia University, New York University, University of Texas at Austin, St Mark's School of Texas, The Dalton School, The Brearley School, The Chapin School, Brooklyn College, and Wesleyan University.
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On March 13,2023, Swati Bhise was one of the presenting speakers at UN's NGO CSW67 Forum on Right to an Inclusive, Safe and Secure Digital Existence for Women and Girls.
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In 2012, Swati Bhise founded The Sadir Theater Festival, a three- day festival that takes place annually in Goa, India.
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Swati Bhise brought the UNESCO heritage art form Kunqu opera, one of the oldest styles of Chinese theatre, to India for the first time with performances at The National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, and at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi.
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In 2014, Swati Bhise founded a film production company called Cayenne Pepper Productions after serving as Executive Producer and Indian cultural consultant on The Man Who Knew Infinity, an Edward R Pressman film starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons.
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Swati Bhise has sat on numerous panels including the five-member grand jury at the 9th annual Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards alongside Shabana Azmi, Sushma Seth, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, and Utkarsh Mazumdar.
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Swati Bhise is the co-author of the book Aai's Recipes: Traditional Indian cuisine from Maharashtra, a collection of Chandraseniya Kayasthan Prabhu recipes, along with her mother Usha Gupte.
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Swati Bhise received Leadership Award from Arts4All Foundation for her Excellence In Leadership And Service on Oct 30th 2022.
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Swati Bhise received Asia Arts Game Changer Award from Asia Society for Arts Visionary on March 8,2023.
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Swati Bhise is an outspoken advocate for women's empowerment with a focus on South Asia.
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Swati Bhise is a Lotus Circle advisor for The Asia Foundation, a "nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia".