DANCE ARTIST, SCHOLAR, AGITATOR.

decolonial, democratic, abolitionist praxis. 

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.

PROJECTS

DISOBEDIENT BODIES

A practice-based research inquiry that interrogates the politics of Odissi, while reclaiming disobedience as an emancipatory mode of learning and performance making.

MEET SÁDÉ

Performance as dissidence.

Sádé Budhlall is a Trinbagonian anti-disciplinary Odissi artist who moves between diasporic embodiment, embodied resistance and decolonial practice. Her practice intervenes in the neo-colonial and patriarchal frameworks of reconstructed Indian classical dance through choreopolitical inquiry, re-worlding Odissi through Caribbean embodiment, and opening new political possibilities.