Bani Ādam: a post-traumatic poem is a choreographic research around the topic of post-traumatic pain and how it affects the individual body, and-as a result-the collective body (ie. humanity). It takes Saadi Shiraz’s 13th century poem, Bani Adam which looks at each of us as parts of a bigger body, saying: if one part is in pain, that bigger body will inevitably suffer. This poem adorns one of the meeting rooms in the United Nations building in New York. As a former UN employee and a multi-minority dissident, who has suffered persecution and injustice due to activism, I see this project as a personal critique on power structures, inflicting psychosomatic pain on our individual/collective body.