Because I Love the diversity (this micro-attitude we all have it)
Direction/Choreography/Concept/Performed:
Rakesh Sukesh
Dramaturge/Aesthetic Adviser/Choreographic Assistant/ Set design: In collaboration with
Alessia Luna Wyss
Text/acting coach/text dramaturge: Marcus Youssef
Music: Pol Sinus
Costume: Mat Voorter
Executive manager: Louise Mestrallet
Management/Distribution/Tour manager:
Godlive Lawani – Stane Performing Arts Management
Content writer: Gabriela Jimenez
This production was commissioned by Push Festival Vancouver
Belgium supporters of this work are PARTS Summer Studio, Ultima Vez, Tictac Art Center,
Zinnema, Company THOR, En Archipel Association, and Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels.
The European support is ROPA-Spain and Tanzhaus Zurich
Special Thanks to Deltebre
PRESS.
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
7-20th/04 2025
Portland USA
28th/09 2025
Tallinn- Estonia
