Uttara Coorlawara
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Uttara Asha Coorlawala
"Professor (adj) Dance, Barnard College
Professor (Adj) Alvin Ailey Fordham University Professional Dance Program
Co-Curator, Erasing Borders festival of Indian Dance In New York City
Prior teaching experience includes modern dance (Graham, Cunningham & Horton based) hatha yoga technique, and dance studies courses at Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus BFA program, Princeton University, The Spence School, and Artist-in Residency programs in New York city.
As a dancer-choreographer Coorlawala initiated in India what has since become a movement towards intercultural innovation. Choreography was based on modern dance, (Graham-based & Cunningham techniques) Bharata Natyam and yoga (Siddha Yoga and Iyengar). Her first solo dance tours were sponsored by the United States Information Service (now a part of NEA) introducing American modern dance to audiences across India. Subsequently danced over several solo tours in India, Europe and East Europe, Japan and the USA. She was listed as an empanelled artist with the I.C.C.R. (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) NYFA –The New York Foundations for the Arts, and various arts-In-Education programs"
https://dance.barnard.edu/profiles/ucoorlaw
Professor (Adj) Alvin Ailey Fordham University Professional Dance Program
Co-Curator, Erasing Borders festival of Indian Dance In New York City
Prior teaching experience includes modern dance (Graham, Cunningham & Horton based) hatha yoga technique, and dance studies courses at Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus BFA program, Princeton University, The Spence School, and Artist-in Residency programs in New York city.
As a dancer-choreographer Coorlawala initiated in India what has since become a movement towards intercultural innovation. Choreography was based on modern dance, (Graham-based & Cunningham techniques) Bharata Natyam and yoga (Siddha Yoga and Iyengar). Her first solo dance tours were sponsored by the United States Information Service (now a part of NEA) introducing American modern dance to audiences across India. Subsequently danced over several solo tours in India, Europe and East Europe, Japan and the USA. She was listed as an empanelled artist with the I.C.C.R. (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) NYFA –The New York Foundations for the Arts, and various arts-In-Education programs"
https://dance.barnard.edu/profiles/ucoorlaw
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