with Estelle Borel, Rébecca Chaillon, Aurore Déon, Maëva Husband alternating with Olivia Mabounga, Ophélie Mac, Makeda Monnet, Fatou Siby, David-Christelle Sanvee

Playing on a famous advertising slogan, Rébecca Chaillon blows up the exotic and erotic clichés in which black women’s bodies are confined. With seven performers of African descent coming from various artistic backgrounds, she creates a community on stage that embarks on a poetic journey of initiation into a country whose imagination hasn’t gone through decolonization. In the long tunnel that takes them from their "awful-past to their afro-future," they question the hypersexualization of their bodies, their alienation from whiteness and from colonial history, their visibility and invisibility in France, and the models with which they grew up. Through her set design, Rébecca Chaillon elicits various possibilities of perception, according to where you are in the theatre as well as in the world. Not to pit them against each other, but to invent, through art, a shareable space centered on this question: how do you shape your desire when you are neither male nor white?


In collaboration with the MC93 maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis at Bobigny and the T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers

Cast

dramaturgy Céline Champinot
scenography Camille Riquier, Shehrazad Dermé
sound Elisa Monteil, Issa Gouchène
lighting Myriam Adjalle
artistic collaboration Aurore Déon, Suzanne Péchenart
assistant director Olivia Mabounga, Jojo Armaing
general management Suzanne Péchenart
construction Samuel Chenier, Baptiste Odet
production / development manager L'Œil Écoute - Mara Teboul, Élise Bernard
touring logistics / communication L'Œil Écoute - Amandine Loriol

production Compagnie Dans le Ventre

coproduction Théâtre de la Manufacture -centre dramatique national de Nancy, Le Carreau du Temple, Maillon - Théâtre de Strasbourg scène européenne, Scène nationale d'Orléans, Fonds de dotation Porosus, Fonds franco-allemand Transfabrik pour le spectacle vivant, Nordwind festival, Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, L'Aire libre - Rennes, La Ferme du Buisson - scène nationale de Marne-la-Vallée, Centre dramatique national Normandie-Rouen, Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne, La Rose des Vents- scène nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve d'Ascq, Le Phénix - scène nationale Valenciennes in the context of the Amiens-Valenciennes shared campus, Théâtre Sorano - scène conventionnée 

with the support of SUBS, Le Générateur - lieu d'art et de performances, La Loge, Kampnagel Fabrik, Dans les parages - La Zouze compagnie Christophe Haleb

with the artistic participation of the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre

with the support of the Fonds d'insertion pour jeunes comédiens de l'École supérieure d'art dramatique - PSPBB, the direction régionale des affaires culturelles Hauts-de-France and the Hauts-de-France region

in collaboration with the MC93 Maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis in Bobigny and the T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers

Rébecca Chaillon is represented by L'Arche, agence théâtrale

The text Je ne suis pas votre Fatou is by Fatou Siby

Biography of Rébecca Chaillon

Rébecca Chaillon is a director, author and performer. After studying performing arts and attending the Conservatory of the 20th arrondissement of Paris, her meeting with Rodrigo García confirmed her desire to write for the stage. With the company Dans le Ventre, which she founded in 2006, she explores female identities, the relationship to the body and to society.


In 2012, she presented L'Estomac dans la peau, a solo/performance, followed in 2015 by a show about cannibalism in love: Monstres d'amour (I'll give you a good reason to scream). These two multi-faceted projects combine text, video, self-make-up and performance to tackle themes that are both intimate and political. In 2018, with twelve female football players, she created Où la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu'elle broute. In 2019, she conceived and performed with Pierre Guillois the show Sa bouche ne connaît pas de dimanche – fable sanguine, as part of the 2019 edition of Vive le sujet! (Avignon Festival / Sacd). After Carte noire nommée désir, created in 2021, the company will present in 2022 its first show for the general public, Plutôt vomir que faillir, a performative form that brings together adolescence and food(s).