Written alongside her autobiographical bookJe me relève (Ed. Anne Carrière, 2021), Maïmouna Coulibaly subtly combines dance, testimony and humor in this hard-hitting one-woman-show.
Directed by Gilles Ramade
In the manner of Booty Therapy, this one-woman show acts as a release, a way to get rid of traumas, to understand them, to live them together in order to develop a form of resilience and to overcome them. It is at the same time a remedy, a cure, a therapy, we shout, we cry and we laugh, and nobody leaves indifferent.
For once, the speech is given to women, who testify their experiences with humor and pride. Throughout the show, Maïmouna confronts taboo subjects: rape, sexual aggression, female masturbation, body positivism, female circumcision, motherhood...