He also trained with Pina Bausch in the Wuppertal Dance Company, Germany and with Alison Becker Chase of the Pilobolus Dance Company, and travelled through to Europe, Americas, Japan and Indonesia.
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Shortly after wards, Uttara Asha Coorlawala who was studying dance in New York visited Bombay, and later help Astad get admitted to Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance.
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A turning point in his career came in 1986, when in 1986, when Pierre Cardin commissioned him to choreograph for Maya Plisetskaya, the prime ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater ballet company.