Ria Ghoshal is a dancer classically trained in bharatanatyam and odissi. Her primary training was under Guru Smt. Vinitha Subramanian and Guru. Smt. Supradipta Datta and she has also studied with Rukmini Vijayakumar, the Dhananjayans, Minati Pradhan, L. Narendra Kumar, Niharika Mohanty, Aloka Kanungo, Aparupa Chatterjee, and Jayalakshmi Eshwar. Her performance experience includes the Ferst Center (Atlanta), the North American Odissi Convention (Houston), the Michael C. Carlos Museum (Atlanta), One World Theatre (Austin), and the North American Bengali Conference (Houston). She is interested in the connections between classical dance and poetry and contemporary generations and issues.