Eshani Patel

ESHANI PATEL is a Los Angeles-based choreographer and dancer with over 1.5M+ followers across platforms. She has a passion for fusing both her South Asian and Western identities through dance and hopes to continue to spread her love for dance and her culture through her work. 

As a child, she completed her Arangetram after 7 years of Bharatnatyam training. During her undergraduate college years, she danced on UPenn’s competitive Bollywood fusion dance team, Penn Masti, for 4 years, serving as the female lead her senior year. During her dental school years, Eshani continued her dance journey by performing with Aluminati Dance, the national All-Star Bollywood Fusion dance team, for two years. After finishing up school, Eshani moved to Los Angeles and started training in Western dance styles such as Hip Hop, Shuffle, and House.

From 2020-2023, Eshani grew her social media following, coined the hashtag #desishuffle, and became especially well-known for fusing shuffle footwork with various South Asian dance and music styles. For this reason, she co-founded DesiFuze in 2021 and started traveling internationally to teach classes that focused on this fusion. In 2022, Eshani won Season 1 Episode 8 of Shakira’s NBC Dancing With Myself.

Currently, Eshani continues her dance training in Los Angeles, travels locally and internationally to teach both DesiFuze and Solo Dance Workshops, takes on choreography projects, creates content online, and is a Sony Audio Ambassador.