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Odissi x embodied politics x diasporic worlding. Decolonial + abolitionist + relational praxis.
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I have the sweetest joy of sharing the first official poster for DOUGLA, photographed by @shinelleambris and designed by @jerelramsey

Here are the hearts & minds who made this screendance possible alongside @thegoldenmoko and I:

Directed for camera: @jerelramsey
Director of photography: @renaldo868
Sound designer: @track7music
Production assistants: @shinelleambris @joanna24young @the.awkwardgoddess
BTS: @shinelleambris
Makeup & hair: @sir3n.moods
Jewelry: @theobliqueimperative
Shot on location: @ile.park.tt courtesy of @babaayinde @modupeonilumuzik
Catering: Chef @djannix_

To learn more about the research process, the communities that made it all possible, and to request a participatory community screening, please visit the first website link in my bio.

On the site, you’ll find reflections from members of the production team. You are invited to leave a reflection of your own and become part of the living archive of relation that this work continues to open.🥭🤍 by @sadebudhlall

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DOUGLA will be part of @modarts_dance’s #MoveToChange Dance Festival screening online from Oct 5th to 25th 2026.

The film gathers around this year’s theme, Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility, with its own questions around how collective life is remade through relating through our differences.

Deep gratitude to the festival organizers for making space for Caribbean stories and for inviting us into this wider conversation on community making. 🤍

You can see the performances in person, via livestream, or on demand.

Tickets + details: https://www.modartsdance.com/festivals

Photo: @shinelleambris by @sadebudhlall

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Our intention in this dance was to listen to what is genuinely happening between our bodies and not protect the other from being changed by the experience.

Can we be in relation if nothing is affected or risked?

DOUGLA, a screendance exploring Afro-Indo relational politics through an encounter between Moko Jumbie and Odissi practice will be screened at @1261filmfestival Grenada this October.

Featuring the incredible @thegoldenmoko

More information on the festival and its brilliant lineup of films can be found on their (gorgeously designed) website at www.1261filmfestival.com by @sadebudhlall

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Thinking fondly of my growing relationship with @aliceyardinsta, with so much appreciation for the love and support they continue to give to my practice.

Thank you for all that you do in the spirit of community, and for continuing to nourish the creative energy that flows through your space.

Congratulations on 20 remarkable years, and on all that has been made possible along the way. 🤍

Photography: @jerelramsey by @sadebudhlall

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$POV: you completed your master’s degree. I am overcome with tears looking back at the most beautiful two years of my life. What a groundbreaking course to have found a home in @ma_dance_pca. To grow in love alongside a global community of some of the most brilliant artists I have ever met! I share this incredible feat with you, and with the people in Trinidad who filled my practice with so much joy and meaning. Thank you everyone for moving with me, thinking with me, being curious with me. Thank you for listening, witnessing, challenging, encouraging, and holding space as my artistic voice became stronger, clearer. You taught me the importance of dancing in a world both fractured and beautiful, and I carry all of our encounters forward with me. 🤍 by @sadebudhlall$

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Screen Share presents DOUGLA, directed by Sádé Budhlall and Jerel Ramsey, and screening on September 12.

An Odissi dancer, imagined as an Apsara. A Moko Jumbie on stilts. Two movement worlds, one Indian and one African, reaching toward each other across a speculative plantation-era Trinidad.

This striking screendance explores Afro-Indo relational politics through the encounter between these two traditions. Rather than presenting connection as seamless, DOUGLA attends to its difficulty — the fragility and ongoing labour of relation within histories shaped by slavery, Indian indenture, and colonial systems of separation.

🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS! Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 link in bio.
📅 September 12 · 1–3:30PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

#caribbeantales #torontoevents #todotoronto #caribbeancanadian #torontofilmfestival by @sadebudhlall

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Sádé Budhlall

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