Tanvi Hegade is contemporary dancer, dance movement therapist and German translator, who grew up across West India in Pune, Nashik and Baroda. Having spent a decade training in and performing contemporary dance and physical theatre, these experiences now serve as a foundation for her to explore the myriad possibilities of expression using the body.
The productions she has been part of have been performed at national and international festivals including in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Romania and Poland. She facilitates dance therapy sessions as part of a community project for persons with Parkinson’s Disease. Poetry plays an immense part in the way she likes to make sense of the world. Tanvi is the Secretary of West Zone of the Creative Movement Therapy Association of India and the Head of Dance in Education at the Centre of Contemporary Dance, Pune. She was part of the Indian delegation at the World Theatre Congress in Fujairah in 2023 and is the Indian representative in the ITI Dance Committee.
Tanvi has been awarded the Compassion & Resilience Fellowship by The Red Door India, and the Arts for Good Fellowship by the Singapore International Foundation. She finds herself in the process of incubating ideas about forming insightful and honest ways of dialogue at the intersections of language, movement and social impact. Language as a tool of erasure and enabler, the (in)visibility of non-normative bodies in performance, and the politics of gender and migration are some of the themes that are alive for her at present.
