Prenons notre Temple

Creation 2025 From Friday 31 October to Sunday 2 November 2025 at the Carreau du Temple in Paris

Photo credits: Compagnie Dans le Ventre

To celebrate her 40th birthday, Rébecca Chaillon is pushing the boundaries and orchestrating 40 hours of performances in every corner of the Carreau du Temple!

As the Poetic Lovers said, ‘Let's take our Temple’*

At the start of Scorpio season, during these few days when the haunted world celebrates all saints and all the dead, artist Rébecca Chaillon is celebrating her 40th birthday and naturally proposes to push the boundaries by orchestrating 40 hours of performances in every corner of the Carreau du Temple with her company, her artist friends and performers.

The Dans Le Ventre company invites us to an experience that celebrates time past, present and future. "We want to care, talk, dream, watch works together, work together. It's a performance for artists and audiences alike. Of course, we will revisit well-known performances and artistic and activist collaborations that have paved the way for the company's artists. But we will also try to ask ourselves, 'What will the next 40 years bring? How can we take care of ourselves and others when life has burned us out faster than expected? How can we procreate, save money, build a life in the diaspora, in a precarious community, and age and die with dignity? Rébecca Chaillon and the Dans Le Ventre Company

On the programme: performances, round tables, DJ sets, concerts, visual and performance installations, film marathon, nap room & podcasts, solidarity canteens...

*For those who are unfamiliar with the reference, Prenons notre temps is a hit song released in 1997 by the RnB group Poetic Lovers.

Rebecca Chaillon Forty-something in quarantine
Ophelie Mac Birthday planner / Artistic and visual coordination
Suzanne Pechenart Stage management and technical coordination
Marianne Joffre Set design and stage management
Angélique Pascal Set design and stage management assistant
My Bertin Lighting
Justine Pommereau Sound coordination and stage management
Marion Koechlin Stage management and technical coordination support
Élisa Monteil Programming of sound creations, podcasts and Kinky Shorts films
Mélanie Charreton Production management
Élise Bernard and Amandine Loriol Administration and logistics

with Ndoho Ange, Majdouline Behel, Zakary Baïri, Gorge Bataille, Sandra Calderan, Marthe Calvaire, Rebecca Chaillon and her family members, Camille Cornu, Aurore Déon, Eau vive, Cindy Emelie, Stessy Emelie, Star Finch, Claire Gadebois, Gaspard Genard, Grâce et Volypté Van Van, Camelia Jordana, Mona LaDoll, La Gouvernante, Mélo Lauret, Mélissa Laveaux, Capucine Légelle, Ophélie Mac, Makeda Monnet, Elisa Monteil, Victoria Paulet, Gystère Peskine, Sébastien Richelieu, Nathalie Sejean, Fatou Siby, Sophye Soliveau, Lucía Soto, Alexia Soyeux, Ketty Steward, Woki Li, Clara Ysé, Zéphyr, the performers from Gerty Dambury's Séna: Leïla Goutorbe, Jalil Leclaire, Marina Monmirel, Martine Maximin and Maroussia Pourpoint, the students of Sequence 11 of the École Supérieure du Théâtre de l'Union - Limoges: Ayat Ben Yacoub, Lilou Benegui, Sidi Camara, Justine Canetti, Samy Cantou, Hector Chambionnat, Marcel Farge, Nils Farre, Anna Mazzia, Juliette Menoreau, Inès Musial, Barthélémy Pollien, Baptiste Thomas and Chahna Grévoz, and journalists from Mediapart: Edwy Plenel, Carine Fouteau, Sarah Brethes, Sabrina Kassa, Mathieu Magnaudeix and Tarik Safraoui.

Co-production: Compagnie Dans le Ventre and Le Carreau du Temple - cultural and sports establishment of the City of Paris

With the support of the Professional Integration Fund of the Union's Higher Theatre School, DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region.

The Compagnie Dans le ventre is supported by the French Ministry of Culture (DRAC Hauts-de-France).

Acknowledgements: Charlie Chine, Théâtre Public de Montreuil – CDN, Théâtre de l'Union – CDN de Limoges, l'Arche Éditeur, Fatsabbat, Shehrazad Dermé, Anastasia Rachman, Margault Chavaroche, Marianne Vigneulle, Léa Ferrez-Lenhard, Sandra Calderan and the team of volunteers involved in the event.

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