Dr. Sruti Bandopadhay is one of the foremost dance - artists of India. She has performed extensively in the National and International Circuit for last 25 years. She is trained in classical Manipuri dance under Guru Bipin Singh,Kalavati Devi and Darshana Jhaveri. She also received training from Ojha Gourakisor Sharma and Ojha Babu Singh of Manipur. She received scholarship from Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. She is the recipient of a number of awards and honours. She has been awarded the Top Grade by Doordarshan (National Television), India. Besides her performing career, she has also pursued her academics on dance and achieved the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) of University Grants Commission, India. She has obtained a Ph.D on Dance. She has also worked with eminent choreographers and theatre directors of India and abroad. She is at present working as the Reader and Head of the department of Dance, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. She is attached to other Universities in various capacities. A number of students have been awarded Ph.D under her guidance. She is regularly performing, guiding research, conducting workshops, giving lectures and demonstrations and writing articles and books on dance.

Along with Classical Manipuri dances, she is also engaged in an experiment with a new dance idiom. She has a number of experimental productions to her credit. She is the artistic director of her troupe.

Sruti Performing Troupe presents different experimental theatrical performances. In this troupe trained dancers perform with quality and standard. This platform organizes workshops, seminars and performances regularly to promote the rich cultural heritage of our country.
On the occasion of 138th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, the troupe produced the dance theatre bajao re mohana banshi, (Play your enchanting flute) where we tried to portray that in Tagore's world of thought, the banshi and its melody, though maintaining the world of reality, help us reach another level of aesthetic awareness. Artistic director successfully choreographed to present a daily life of human being and search of eternal freedom on the song collection. It was highly acclaimed by the press and public. It was telecast by Indian Television in the National Program of Dance and Music as a tribute to Tagore on the eve of his birth anniversary 2000.This production was selected for the cultural events during soccer World Cup at South Korea 2002.
Inspired by the achievement of bajao re mohana banshi we came up with another production Offerings, which is a theatre dance version of Tagore's Gitanjali. This bilingual multidimensional stage production was premiered at New Delhi in May 2000. After that it was performed in a number of national and international gatherings, where it was acclaimed as a 'land marking' experimental production on Tagore's thoughts and writings. It was performed at the inaugural ceremony of the International Theatre Festival at Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2001.On the way of experiment with Tagore's work and subsequent achievements nationally and internationally, a production based on Tagore's writings on the philosophy of lights has been conceived. The dance theatre AlO, is a creation of multi imagination of artists of our times.