Avatâra has an interest not only in collaborating with artists from  different cultural backgrounds but also researching the dance sectors of non-European countries in order to broaden our view on how another culture deals with its own performing arts sector, observing their achievements but also their deficiencies and difficulties. These cultural dance experiences aim  to engage in dialogue, exchange knowledge and pursue collaborations with creative minds from other cultures: one of the greatest privileges any artist can have. Her latest research took place in Nunavut (the Canadian Arctic).

Thomas Sankara: “You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. It comes from nonconformity, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday (and I add: the madwomen) for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen/madwomen. [...] We must dare to invent the future.”

"Collaboration not Appropriation" Published at British Council Website, Artists' International Development Fund Grant, 2018
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"Let's Dare to Invent the Future" Publication at We Were Here. Annivesary of Hellerau-European Center for the Arts Dresden
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Dancing Times Magazine (UK) March issue: Avatâra writes about the "Women in Dance Leadership" Conference
at Tisch University New York in January 2018
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Research on Burkina Faso Contemporary Dance Sector 2016
Funded by British Council. Published at One Dance UK magazine
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Research on Japanese Contemporary Dance Sector 2013
Funded by Lisa Ullman Travelling Fund
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Dissecting Principles. Panel discussion: Developing African Dance Practices 2017
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