Dr. Arudhra Krishnaswamy is a Contemporary dancer, performance maker and scholar from India who is currently based in Dublin. She has a PhD in Dance Anthropology (NUS) and a Masters in Drama and Performance (UCD). She has been a lecturer of dance at the Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore and Nanyang Academy of Fine arts (NAFA) and is currently a lecturer of Theatre and Performance at both UCD and Dundalk Institute of Technology alongside being an independent artist who teaches various workshops and guest faculty classes with a number of art spaces as well as studios.

She has taught various workshops and intensive programmes both locally and internationally including Singapore, Jakarta, Tokyo, Bandung, Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai and Dublin. She is a former company dancer of The Danceworx, India and The Royal Dance Off Company, Singapore. She is a scholarship recipient to the International Student Visa Programme, Broadway Dance Centre, New York and an Emerging Scholar Award recipient of the International Conference on the Arts in Society held in Portugal in 2019.