# 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.


## Posts

- [Intimacies of Institutional Embodiment: Dancing In The Limbo between Pleasure and Discipline. ](https://sadebudhlall.com/intimacies-of-institutional-embodiment-dancing-in-the-limbo-between-pleasure-and-discipline/): What does it mean to love a dance form you are also in tension with? This essay lingers in that uneasy intimacy. Writing from inside that friction, I reflect on what it means to stay in relation to a 'classical' form without surrendering complexity, and to let contradiction become a way of listening more truthfully to what the body resists and cannot easily let go of.
- [Running from “the Contemporary” Inside the Living Body of Odissi](https://sadebudhlall.com/running-from-the-contemporary-inside-the-living-body-of-odissi/): Alongside my research project, Disobedient Bodies, my work has become increasingly concerned with how “the contemporary” operates not simply as a marker of time, but as a set of attitudes and permissions within Indian ‘classical’ dance. This essay explores who defines what counts as contemporary, how such definitions are upheld or contested, and how they are positioned in relation to the ‘classical’ across Western and Indian dance lineages.

## Pages

- [IN THE MEDIA](https://sadebudhlall.com/in-the-media/): An archive of events, projects and performances.
- [MOVEMENT WORKS](https://sadebudhlall.com/movement-works/): A selection of current and past works.
- [DOUGLA](https://sadebudhlall.com/dougla/): A screendance that explores Afro–Indo relational politics through a choreographic encounter between Odissi and Moko Jumbie practice.
- [LAND LINES](https://sadebudhlall.com/land-lines/): How do we create home when so many forces disconnect us from land, from each other, and from ourselves?
- [CARNIVAL](https://sadebudhlall.com/carnival/): My relationship with Carnival is grounded in an understanding of Mas as both a sacred practice and choreography of resistance.
- [REFLECTIONS](https://sadebudhlall.com/reflections/)
- [DISOBEDIENT BODIES](https://sadebudhlall.com/disobedient-bodies/): An ongoing investigation into how diasporic bodies inhabit, negotiate, and reworld Odissi through lived experience.
- [ABOUT](https://sadebudhlall.com/about/): Sádé Budhlall is a Trinbagonian anti-disciplinary Odissi artist who engages movement as a site of political inquiry.
- [Home](https://sadebudhlall.com/): decolonial, democratic, abolitionist praxis.
- [Coming Soon](https://sadebudhlall.com/coming-soon/)

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