This practice-research PhD explores the English-Antiguan, mixed-heritage queer body, as a borderland navigating disorder to discover how displacement, identity, and embodied resistance is experienced through and expressed with the body. 

The research centres disorder as a method for choreographic practice and a means for meaning-making. Drawing on the art of clowning, queer, indigenous and black performance, the project explores how disorder – physically and symbolically – can become a crucial tool and tactic for survival and a potential method for thriving. 

Through performance, movement and free-writing the emergent process of lived experience will be captured, bringing personal narratives, social contexts, and theoretical frameworks into dialogue. Ultimately, this project seeks to re-imagine current understandings around the body, identity and culture.