Sádé Budhlall – Dance Artist | Scholar – Sádé Budhlall is a Trinidad and Tobago-based Odissi dance artist, scholar, and facilitator exploring performance, pedagogy, diasporic embodiment, and decolonial movement practice through Trinbagonian and Caribbean ways of knowing.

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.

My work brings together people who wouldn’t ordinarily meet, inviting them to engage their lived experience as a site of knowledge, while navigating complex shared realities.

PROJECTS

DOUGLA

A screendance that explores Afro–Indo relational politics through a choreographic encounter between Odissi and Moko Jumbie practice. It follows two figures as they search for connection across unfamiliar movement worlds.

MEET SÁDÉ

Performance as dissidence.

Sádé Budhlall is a Trinbagonian anti-disciplinary Odissi artist. Her dance practice intervenes in the political frameworks of reconstructed Indian ‘classical’ dance, re-worlding Odissi through Caribbean embodiment, and opening new political possibilities for the body and form.