YOU DON’T HAVE TO LOVE ME, JUST ACCEPT ME

Just accept my existence

We are totally different.
this is our power
and best quality.
acceptance for diversity
and exploring the unknown
is what makes progress and beauty.

DESCRIPTION

You don’t have to love me, just accept me is a 7 minutes piece created for STOP ASIAN HATE AND ANY HATE curated by 7MPR.

You don’t have to love me, just accept me(my existence).

I acknowledge we cannot agree with everything or everyone.

But We have to respect each other’s existence or boundaries.

We cannot hurt people. Hurting someone is meaningless.

Accepting everyone’s existence is called “coexisting”.

In this piece, We want to express this message:

We are totally different, and this is our power and best quality, acceptance for diversity and exploring the unknown is what makes progress and beauty.

和訳

愛してくれなくていい、ただ私（が存在すること）を受け入れて。

皆が “すべての人や物事に対していつも賛成する”ことは不可能である、ということを、私たちは認識しています。
しかし、私たちはそれぞれの存在や私たちそれぞれを分け隔てる何かに対して、敬意を払うべきです。

人を傷つけては、なりません。

誰かを傷つけるということは、何の解決にもならず、無意味なこと。

それぞれの存在を受け入れるということが、”共存”ということ。

この作品内では、わたしたちは以下のメッセージを届けたいと思っています。

「私たちは、まったく違う。でも、それが私たちのパワーであり、ベストなクオリティである。多様性を受け入れ、知らないことの可能性などを探索していくというのが、私たちを進化させ、美しくするものなのです。」

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Review

"You Don't Have to Love Me, Just Accept Me" by the sarAika movement collective showcased significant, flowy movements to an instrumental driving beat. The dancers started with weight-sharing and full body contact, solidifying their duet as one of connection and unity. The dancers seemed to be controlling the movements of one another like marionette and puppeteer, which can only make the audience question if it is by choice or force that the puppet dances. The dancer in gray ends the piece by building something or creating something from nothing, only to have the white dancer watch, before ultimately destroying it. The thought-provoking piece raises the question of what boundaries we set and what are we willing to sacrifice to maintain them.

Curtis J. Faulkner

Actor • Singer • Choreographer • Model

from Mark DeGarmo Dance Salon Performance Series for Social Change 5/4/2023

The title of the final piece, “You Don’t Have to Love Me, Just Accept Me,” choreographed by sarAika Movement, felt particularly poignant in today’s culture. The intensity of the dancing expressed the importance of the idea behind the title. The sharpness of the dancing matched the sharpness of music. This mimicking of sound through movement was quite effective, as the music worked to amplify the motions. The black box arena in which the dancers performed was small. The square container acted as a prison for the dancers, who struggled with labored movement to escape. In the end the dancers did not escape confinement. The struggle did not find a finale, leaving me wondering if this piece had a part two.

Callie Hatchett

from Mark DeGarmo Dance Salon Performance Series for Social Change 5/4/2023