Payal Gupta, hails from a diverse cultural background where performing arts is given immense importance and hence has been passionate about dance since the age of 7. She holds a degree in B.E. and took dance classes all through her college life, but her passion for dance made her opt for a career shift only to make the world dance along with her.
She has gained tremendous amount of experience in performing, teaching and directing, while learning various forms of dance from reputed instructors like Aziza, Sadie Marquardt, Leyla Jouvana, Silvia Salamanca, Nika Mlakar, Nadia Nikishenko, Queenie, Arati sunawala, Prithvi and Ree and the NATYA institute. The dance forms include belly dance, modern contemporary, jive, kathak and freestyle. She has worked with various reputed dance teams and choreographers in Bangalore and in Germany.
She specialises in Egyptian, Arabic, fusion, folk, tribal and modern belly dance, contemporary and freestyle. She also holds a record in the “INDIAN BOOK OF RECORDS” in the field of belly dancing.