Devika Chotoe is a choreographer, curator, researcher, and writer. Her work emerges from a concern for justice and a desire to heal and transform embodied systemic oppression. The aim being self and collective empowerment. Mainly creating work with decolonial and queer lenses, she uses performance art and language as entry points into understanding how hegemonic technologies of power shape bodies, times, spaces and their interrelationality. Striving to translate the unexpressed desires of predecessors, ancient rhythms, and queer futurities into prefigurative politics and a poetics of change.

Devika graduated from the School for New Dance Development (2022) and currently holds the position of research fellow at If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution (AMS).