The mutual transformation and influence between everyday life and practice of art is a common experience among many artists. The experience is intense for artists with an art practice that necessitates the recording of their process and art form into the cells of their bodies, particularly performance artists and performing artists who have to enact the work of art. Sometimes it would feel like living the work rather than producing it. 

Misunderdance, which was introduced to New York as a work-in-progress version this spring, was first attempted in Wales in 2015. It was derived from the research I was undergoing in other projects in 2013 and while I was focused on exploring various connections between body and language. I was particularly interested in how different cultures have their own language and…