What if you knew you couldn't be something, but you tried anyways? Like, really tried? This coming of age story is based on the real lived experience of a brown girl who scrambled her way into the professional ballet world.
In this solo performance, Oshi reveals the untold story of how being Brown in ballet is ultimately a test of fitting in. This conflates the problems of going against her family’s expectations of a Brown girl, and not being able to stand up for herself. She is both victim and perpetrator in her struggle to prove that Brown people can be ballerinas. Her bewildering encounters with racism and the expectations of her Brown body are as wild and unapologetic as New York City itself.
"Brown People Can't Be Ballerinas" MMFF Fringe Play from Oshini Wanigasekera on Vimeo.
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Brown People Can't Be Ballerinas
