THE LEVRETTES OF BELLEVILLE

LE BIJOU, 123 Avenue de Muret

Les Levrettes de Belleville explore with humor and mischief a question rarely tackled head-on: female pleasure. The subject could lend itself to provocation or simple militant discourse. Yet this show is much more than that. With texts: sensitive, sometimes sharp, often funny, always intelligent. The words flow between poetry, confidences and playfulness. They are carried by a musical writing alternating piano and moments of a cappella. The argument, too, moves forward with lightness and depth at once: to speak of desire, of pleasure, of erotic imagination — non p…