Living Smile Vidya is a heroine: the protagonist of the story of a life she has reinvented. Assigned male at birth in southern India, born among the marginalized Dalit caste, here she is, a few decades later, a trans activist on European stages, following a path strewn with hardship and courage. A real character, a living fictional figure, her presence on stage is at once generous, funny and bold: she unfolds the story of an intimate and political history while constantly addressing the audience. She sings, she dances, she challenges, she plays with her body, with costumes, with images and space, in a kind of freewheeling musical. Through this performance, she also brings forth the voices of those who, like her, cross borders and seek refuge elsewhere in order to lead a dignified existence. Living Smile, in the strongest sense of the word, is the name she proudly bears and has rightfully earned !
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Living Smile Vidya
Introducing Living Smile Vidya
Theater performance / 1h
programmation
Artistic Direction, Performance Living Smile Vidya
Mentoring Marcel Schwald
Artistic Mentoring Beatrice Fleischlin
Sound, Video design, animation Moritz Flachsmann
Technical management, Lighting Thomas Kohler
Costumes Diana Ammann
Sound Silvan Koch
Voice (video) Suzì Feliz Das Neves
Production Management Das Theaterkolleg
Coproduction Tojo Theater Reitschule-Bern, Treibstoff Theatertage-Basel and Südpol-Luzern