Alexandre Paulikevitch

In December 2012, as the effects of the Arab Spring were fading, the Lebanese dancer Alexandre Paulikevitch heard a colleague say: «I think as of now we will only dance in private places.» For Paulikevitch, to whom dance is of existential importance, this was inconceivable. «Revocation» is the apt title of his dance performance. He provocatively emerges from behind the veil, dances the Baladi wearing eccentric evening gowns, atones and fights for the right to dance in front of an audience — as a man, as a woman, as a human being.