This chapter offers an account of artistic agency as involving a struggle with the clichés that dominate the work. It acknowledges the importance of nonintentional forms of disruption as a means of countering cliché. The discussion draws upon Gilles Deleuze’s account of art-making within the work of the painter, Francis Bacon. For Deleuze, the act of painting begins with the destabilisation of cliché through the introduction of the nonintentional gesture. The role of the artist is to work with the “chaos-germ” inaugurated by nonintentional modes of disruption, a process which enlists the artist’s know-how. The ensuing discussion is corporeal in focus, asking after the clichés of dance-making, the place of know-how in their confrontation, and their means of resolution. The chapter utilises a collaborative dance work, The Durga Chronicles, in order to tease out these issues, concluding with reference to the work of Bruno Latour on agency as an assemblage of human and nonhuman factors. Artistic agency is thereby framed as a decentred process of creation, ever moderated by the forces of the nonhuman.