Alexandre Paulikevitch, committed dancer. (Credit: Raphaël Abdelnour)
A mischievous, triumphant laugh echoes through the Torino Express as Alexandre Paulikevitch enters, head held high, smile fixed in place. It’s the laugh of a dancer who defied darkness with an arabesque — just as he did days earlier at Metro al-Madina, undeterred by threats from Salafists and the Christian group "Soldiers of God," intent on turning Lebanon into a graveyard.The famous baladi dancer achieved “a historical first” on Sept. 11, 2025, and has been boasting about it since then: having the Lebanese state on his side.Security teams were deployed, the show went on. And Paulikevitch danced, with wig and sequins whipping the air in defiance of homophobia. Because as always with this 43-year-old artist, performance rhymes with revenge.Revenge on the "Frères de ('brothers of') Gemmayzeh" school, where a...
A mischievous, triumphant laugh echoes through the Torino Express as Alexandre Paulikevitch enters, head held high, smile fixed in place. It’s the laugh of a dancer who defied darkness with an arabesque — just as he did days earlier at Metro al-Madina, undeterred by threats from Salafists and the Christian group "Soldiers of God," intent on turning Lebanon into a graveyard.The famous baladi dancer achieved “a historical first” on Sept. 11, 2025, and has been boasting about it since then: having the Lebanese state on his side.Security teams were deployed, the show went on. And Paulikevitch danced, with wig and sequins whipping the air in defiance of homophobia. Because as always with this 43-year-old artist, performance rhymes with revenge.Revenge on the "Frères de ('brothers of') Gemmayzeh" school,...
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