Rébecca Chaillon

Rébecca Chaillon is director, performer, author and founder of the Compagnie Dans Le Ventre. She directs shows and performances actively committed to the struggle against discriminations (be they sexual, racial or gender-based) with a rejoicing taste for the grotesque. Founded in 2006, her company Dans Le Ventre seeks to be a platform for exploring feminine identities and the relationship to the body and society. With a highly personal approach to writing and themes that are at once intimate, political, and universal, 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 exploration of discrimination in women's football, the bloody fable Sa bouche ne connaît pas de dimanche (2019), created with Pierre Guillois, Carte noire nommée désir (2021), an Afro-futuristic tale about the construction of desire in Black women, Plutôt vomir que faillir (2022) about adolescence, questioning a world made by and for adults, and more recently, La Gouineraie (2025), a performance to deconstruct the myth of the traditional rural family. Rébecca Chaillon is an associate artist at the Théâtre de la Manufacture in Nancy and at the Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine.