In Lausanne, dancer Mathilde Monnier and her band superbly fight male violence

Published on November 8, 2024 at 10:08. / Modified on November 8, 2024 at 11:00.

That fighting smile. Biting, proud, fooled by nothing. Her name is Malika, Jeanne or Aïda, it doesn’t matter here. She’s walking down the street and some bastard calls out to her: “Bitch!” A dirty word to catch the prey. At the Théâtre de Vidy, in Black Lights, a show as brilliant as it is important on display until Saturday, the young woman is fighting back. A blow with a shoe in the bittern’s face – which we don’t see. And here he is knocked out. She dances, an unchained pogo and chants: “Left, right, hook, dodge!”

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