{"id":782,"date":"2025-03-21T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selectionsuisse.ch\/?post_type=spectacle&#038;p=782"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:49:00","slug":"living-smile-vidya","status":"publish","type":"spectacle","link":"https:\/\/selectionsuisse.ch\/en\/spectacle\/living-smile-vidya\/","title":{"rendered":"","raw":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 !<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"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 !"},"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-782","spectacle","type-spectacle","status-publish","hentry"],"meta":{"_fr_post_content":"Living Smile Vidya\u00a0est une h\u00e9ro\u00efne. Celle d\u2019une vie par elle r\u00e9invent\u00e9e. N\u00e9e gar\u00e7on en Inde du sud, au sein de la caste marginalis\u00e9e des dalits, la voici, quelques d\u00e9cennies plus tard, trans activiste sur les sc\u00e8nes d\u2019Europe,\u00a0au fil d\u2019un parcours sem\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9preuves et de courage. V\u00e9ritable personnage, figure de fiction bien vivante, dot\u00e9e d\u2019une pr\u00e9sence \u00e0 la fois g\u00e9n\u00e9reuse, dr\u00f4le et gonfl\u00e9e, elle d\u00e9roule le r\u00e9cit d\u2019une histoire intime et politique dans une adresse au public constante. Elle chante, elle danse, elle interpelle, elle joue avec son corps, avec les costumes, avec l\u2019image et avec l\u2019espace, dans une sorte de com\u00e9die musicale des plus libres. Par ce geste, elle porte aussi la voix de celles et ceux qui, comme elle, passent les fronti\u00e8res et cherchent refuge ailleurs pour pouvoir mener une existence digne. Living Smile, au sens fort des mots, c\u2019est le nom qu\u2019elle porte en \u00e9tendard, et il n\u2019est pas usurp\u00e9\u00a0!","_fr_post_excerpt":"","_fr_post_title":"Living Smile Vidya","_fr_post_name":"living-smile-vidya","edit_language":"en"},"excerpt":{"raw":"","rendered":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectionsuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spectacle\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectionsuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spectacle"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectionsuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/spectacle"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectionsuisse.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}