“UTTU” is a performative movement exploration that emerges from openness, allowing things to surface, rather than be shaped. It invites the hidden, the broken, the unwanted, and the in-between to reveal themselves - those neglected fragments that exist on the other side. In this space of non-separation, movement unfolds through the gesture of attunement into what is invisible or ‘unknown’.

Karen Barad’s concept of intra-action informs this process of exploration both in the metaphysical experience of dance — where the dancer’s body is inseparable from the environment and the objects within it — and the creation of performance worlds, where everything is entangled in the co-creation of meaning and movement. The phenomenon is before the phenomena, there are no separate atoms, no separate agents or elements, what is happening is the creation in between. 

“UTTU” is also a practice to decolonize my artistic process from the dominance of Western thought, and let the phenomenological experience, the inspiration and the intuition weave themselves through.