Tanvi Hegade is a contemporary dancer and a dance movement therapist based in Pune, India. 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. 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. The ’Dance for PD’ program, a therapeutic movement program for persons with Parkinson’s Disease, is one that she holds very close to her heart. As the Head of the Dance in Education vertical at the Avartan Dance Foundation, she is realising her mission of creating resilient communities by exploring arts as a tool for community building. She has been part of several productions performed at national and international festivals including in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Romania and Poland. Tanvi is the Secretary of West Zone of the Creative Movement Therapy Association of India. She is the Indian representative of the ITI/UNESCO International Dance Committee, and a recipient of the Compassion & Resilience Fellowship by The Red Door India, the Arts for Good Fellowship by the Singapore International Foundation, and the 2024-2026 Global Fellow with The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University.