Cyrus Khambatta was born in Syracuse, NY to parents of Persian and European decent. As an artist he has always sought to transcend differences and seeks to connect to his audience through his works. He founded The Phffft! Company while receiving his BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied dance and theater techniques .

His choreographic works have been presented in twelve US states, throughout Europe, in Russia and Latin America, commissioned by companies such as Ririe Woodbury Dance (Salt Lake City), Pisorrojo (Caracas, Venezuela), Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance Theatre (Seattle, WA) as well as Phffft! and others. He received California's Damen New Choreography award in 2003 and was a selected artist to participate in the 2004 National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Dance Development Inititive program.

In addition to the many venues he has toured with Phffft!, as an independent artist, his work has been presented at The Young Choreographers Festival (Caracas), The Dartington Improvisation Festival (England), The Bialystok Dance Festival (Poland), and The New York Improvisation Festival among others. He has conducted numerous residencies internationally, including sponsorship by the French and Venezuelan governments and he curates the Beyond the Threshold: Seattle International Dance Festival and produces the Wild Meadows summer dance program in Schellsburg, Pennsylvania.

He has lectured and taught on three continents including such institutions as the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), Canal Danse, Contemporary Dance Theater (both in Paris), George Washington University, the University of South Carolina, Virginia Commonwealth University, New York University, University of Washington, University of Western Washington, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation in NY, and in Seattle at Cornish College of the Arts, Freehold Studio Theatre, Velocity Dance Space and The Moore Theatre's Dance This! program among others.

In the United States, he has performed at numerous venues; The Smithsonian Institution, Dance Theatre Workshop, The Kitchen, Performance Space 122, Judson Church, Columbia University at St. Paul’s Cathedral and New York University among others. He has received awards and grants from numerous foundations to support the presentation of his work both in the U.S. and abroad.

He has initiated numerous community-oriented workshops addressing the needs of the under-served population. In the Washington, D.C. area, he has conducted workshops for the deaf at Galludet College, for inner city youth at The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, and for the visually impaired and mentally and physically challenged through Penn Visions, a mixed-abilities dance company. In New York City, he initiated a language-through-movement training program funded by Manhattan Community Arts Fund and The Harkness Foundation provided to elementary students in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.