THE COMPAGNIE DANS LE VENTRE
Founded in 2006, La Compagnie Dans Le Ventre is a platform for artistic exploration of minority identities in our society. It tackles themes that are at once intimate, political and universal.
8 femmes and Savantes? were the company's first productions, and since 2011, Rébecca Chaillon has been working on projects of varying scope: L’Estomac dans la peau (2011), a solo piece on desire and appetite; Où la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu’elle broute (2018), a piece that explores discrimination through women's football; Carte noire nommée désir (2021), a performance piece about the construction of desire in black women; and Plutôt vomir que faillir (2022), which plunges us into adolescence to question a world made by and for adults. Since 2021, these shows and performances have been in demand internationally.
Her latest creation, La Gouineraie (2025), co-written with Sandra Calderan, deconstructs the myth of the traditional family in rural areas.
Passing on the tools of performance and engaging audiences around the shows remain the company's founding principles, through workshops, courses and backstage meetings.
The Compagnie Dans le ventre is supported by the French Ministry of Culture (DRAC Hauts-de-France).
Rébecca
Chaillon
Rébecca Chaillon is a director, author, performer, member of the collective group RER Q and Scorpio Ascendant Taurus. Activism, debates and performing naked on stage is a second nature. Her artistic work revolves around theatre, performance, poetry and explores the domination-based relationships and the struggle against discriminations. She loves to work around the desires and the violences that act on bodies, with a lot of love, humor and food.
Founded in 2006, her company Dans Le Ventre, seeks to be a platform for artistic exploring of minoritized identities in our society. With a highly personal approach to writing, whose themes are at once intimate and political, she has created works taking various forms, including: L’Estomac dans la peau (2011), a solo show about bulimia; Où la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu’elle broute (2018), an athletic and artistic piece that explores discrimination through women's football ; Carte noire nommée désir (2021), an a performative piece about the construction of desire in black women ; Plutôt vomir que faillir (2022), about adolescence to question a world made by and for adults, and, more recently, La Gouineraie (2025), a performance co-signed with Sandra Calderan, which deconstruct the myth of the traditional rural family.
She is an associate artist at the TnBA, Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, at the TPM, Théâtre Public Montreuil and is a satellite artist of the Théâtre Sorano - Scène conventionnée (Toulouse).
She is represented by L'Arche, agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com where Boudin Biguine Best of Banane, including several of her theatrical texts (2023), Décolonisons les Arts (2018) and Lettres aux jeunes poétesses(2021), collective collections are published.
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