Choreography is a score for a bodily or movement practice that purveys a politics. Through choreography, power relations and ideological effects can be rendered visible. My work with choreography enters domains beyond the aesthetic, and to me any piece of choreography can be seen as the product of choices that represent the social and political consequences of a given action.

I am interested in how choreography and the moving body create conditions of resistance to different hegemonic regimes such as colonialism and capitalism as well as magico-religious belief systems. I think of the intercultural encounter as performative, as a choreographed activity. And I think of any kind of oppression, discrimination as a type of choreopolicing -- a prevention of any formation or expression of the political. How do choreopolitics interact with the choreopolicing of oppression within/during any intercultural encounter? Using choreographic practice as a frame of reference, can new resonances be developed through the innovative spirit of creative praxes to sensitise the body to meaningful intercultural encounters?

My work today asks the following questions: How does the project of 'decolonising the mind' relate to the project of 'decolonising the body'? What are the possibilities of other ways of thinking about interculturality through the bodypolitics of knowledge? Is it possible to learn from the movements of the Other in an intercultural encounter?