Divya has a Masters in Electrical Engineering and has worked in the Telecommunications industry for several years. However, her strong calling for dance made her give up a career in Engineering to pursue a full-time career in her lifelong passion of Bharathanatyam.

Divya Devaguptapu, a senior disciple of the world-renowned Dhananjayans from Chennai, India, is an internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer.

Hailed a child prodigy, she performed her Arangetram (maiden solo performance) at the age of 7, under the tutelage of Kamala Iyengar in Mumbai and continued training under Minal Prabhu before moving to Chennai in 1990 to learn from the world renowned Dhananjayans.

she has toured extensively (USA, Middle-East, Asia) as a soloist over the last two decades with performances at several prestigious festivals and venues including Music Academy Madras, NCPA Mumbai, Kalakshetra Chennai, NDI New York, Ravi Shankar Foundation San Diego, The George Harrison Festival New Delhi, Narada Gana Sabha, Bharat Kalachar, Brahma Gana Sabha in Chennai, India during the famed Margazhi festival.