BEYOND TECHNIQUE TO FIELDS OF RELATIONAL PRACTICE
Sádé’s pedagogical approach moves beyond the limits of any single form, centering adaptable principles that support emancipatory learning and exploration across disciplines. Rather than treating Odissi as a fixed tradition, it offers a porous and responsive framework that invites learners to be curious, disobedient, and attentive to how creative movement operates within their own bodies, histories, and contexts.
At the heart of this work is the conviction that movement is a site where political histories are carried, negotiated, and rearticulated through practice. Working through decolonial, democratic, and abolitionist praxis, this pedagogy approaches dance not as a disciplinary technique to be mastered, but as a choreographic method for thinking, organising, and acting otherwise.
Learning is facilitated through relational practice rather than transmission of fixed knowledge. Attention is placed on how bodies encounter form, how difference is negotiated in shared space, and how technique produces both constraint and possibility.
Studio environments embrace friction, welcome contradiction, and allow relational multiplicities to take shape. Within these conditions, dancers interrogate inherited forms, unsettle colonial logics, and experiment with new ways of moving, sensing, and imagining together.
