because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it)
April 12 – 19, 2025
Saturday, April 12 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, April 13 at 2:00 pm
Thursday, April 17 at 7:00 pm
Friday, April 18 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, April 19 at 2:00 pm
Co-presented by Boom Arts and PICA, because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) is a powerful, personal dance theater work that explores the dancer’s experience as an immigrant in Europe.
A random encounter with a camera on the streets of Tallinn, Estonia made choreographer and dancer Rakesh Sukesh a momentary poster boy for a right-wing news channel’s campaign against immigration from Asia and Africa.
What happens to his body when it is rendered into a viral, racist symbol? How does it affect him, and his relationship to the mostly white, deeply loving artists and students he works with?
In because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it), Rakesh tells the story of his own journey through the powerful semi-improvisational, trance-like movement technique that makes him such an in-demand teacher across the world.
What does it mean to make a performance about this for an art festival, which is part of a scene that has only very recently begun to show interest in his work, precisely because of the kind of racism he encountered in Tallinn?
Content warnings: brief, full nudity.