“My body is the archive, the bridge, and the catalyst.”
Sádé Budhlall,
A Living Practice in Remembering.
I believe in the power of movement to resist the logics that render our bodies docile, to reorient us toward relational liberation, and to name agency as a lived political practice. Because of this, I am drawn to movement practices that centre the body as a place where care, criticality, and collective agency take form.
My practice invites people to engage their lived experience and bodies shaped by diasporic histories as sites of knowledge, while navigating complex shared realities to co-create healing and disrupt neocolonial systems, activating movement as a political and liberatory act.
A decolonial, choreopolitical and pedagogical project project that interrogates the politics and disciplining of bodies within Odissi, while reclaiming disobedience as an emancipatory mode of learning, making, and being.
Sádé Budhlall is a Trinbagonian anti-disciplinary Odissi artist, scholar and activist whose work moves between diasporic cosmologies, embodied resistance and decolonial practice. Her work agitates the colonial and patriarchal frameworks of reconstructed Indian classical dance, using imaginative repair and choreopolitical inquiry to re-situate Odissi through Caribbean embodiment and open new ethical and political possibilities.