Uttara Asha Coorlawala, (Ph.D.) has been teaching technique and theoretical dance courses at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus, Barnard College (Columbia University) and at Princeton NJ. She served as editor for the Newsletter of the Congress Of Research in Dance, and as Guest Editor for Dance Research Journal. Her articles have been published in Dance Chronicle, Dance Research Journal, Animated, Sangeet Natak Akademi Journal, Pulse and in anthologies on intercultural performance and dance. Dancer-choreographer, Coorlawala pioneered in India what has since become a movement towards intercultural innovation. Her choreographic style and performances brought her three disciplines, modern dance, Bharata Natyam and yoga to the dance stage. She danced throughout India, Europe, East Europe, Japan and the United States and as a designated cultural representative of India and for the United States Information Service. Her repertory included works by Alvin Ailey, M.H. Burchfield, Mohanrao Kalyanpurkar Sun Ock Lee, Daniel Maloney, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Anna Sokolow, Padma Subrahmanyam, Kei Takei, and Yuriko (Kikuchi). Participating in intercultural, Indian, and S. Asian dance events as consultant, speaker and as choreography mentor, Coorlawala recently received the Dadabhai Naoroji Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored jointly by the British and Indian governments, AHRB Dance Research Fellowship for South Asian Dance Research, London and most recently has been researching South Asian Dance for an Asia Society/Ford Foundation project on changing demographies and cultures in the USA.