Charly’s research focuses on the connections between diverse artistic mediums. She is currently developing a long term project called Movenglish®: a movement language with a word-to-word correspondence to English that seeks to preserve and embody the nuances of written/spoken language. She believes that such translations disrupt preconceived notions of Western dance’s formal and aesthetic limitations, making visible relationships between dance and other artistic mediums which often go unnoticed. Because dance spaces and political spaces persist within the same affective contexts, they have the power to reciprocally determine each other. By rupturing the boundaries that partition experience, artistic translation can be used to dismantle prevailing power structures and work toward establishing more equitable communities.