Kaustavi Sarkar is an assistant professor in the department of dance at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is an Odissi soloist and is the discipline of Guru Poushali Mukherjee, Guru Ratikant Mohapatra, and Guru Sujata Mohapatra. She has received two artworks grants from the National Endowment for the Arts among other state and regional grants for her creative praxis. Her writing on practice-based research has been published in journal articles in Research in Dance Education, Journal of Dance Education, Choreographic Practices, Performance Research, Dance Education in Practice and South Asian Dance Intersections.