Emerging from ethnographic work begun in October 2025 with Moko Jumbie communities in Trinidad, particularly Jaiso Mokos and Future Jumbies, and from a practice-as-research process that places Odissi in conversation with Moko Jumbie practice, this project explores how movement vocabularies change through encounter. Working through a micro-choreographic process, it attends to the small negotiations through which bodies come into contact, adjust, resist, and find ways of being with one another.

It understands creolization as a bodily negotiation shaped by Afro–Indo Caribbean histories, cultural hierarchy, and plantation afterlives, while also unsettling ideas of purity and fixed tradition in Indian classical dance by opening Odissi to the affects, textures, and sensorial pressures of the Caribbean. At its core, the work invites reflection on difference and the ongoing labour of coexistence.