Rébecca Chaillon

Born in 1985.
Rébecca Chaillon is a a director, performer and author whose company, Dans Le Ventre, put on engaged performative shows.

Originally from Martinique, Rébecca Chaillon spent her childhood and teenage years in Picardy. She moved to Paris to study performing arts at the Conservatoire «Georges Bizet». 

From 2005 to 2017, she worked with the theatrical debate company Entrées de Jeu, directed by Bernard Grosjean, and with her own company, Dans Le Ventre, which she founded in 2006.

Following a highly acclaimed solo performance (L'Estomac dans la peau, 2014), Rébecca Chaillon is the author of Où la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu'elle broute (2019), a show which uses the body to question discrimination in women's football.

Since 2021, she has been touring with her shows Carte Noire nommée Désir and Whitewashing, which question the place of black women, the construction of desire and systems of domination. Plutôt Vomir que Faillir, her latest creation, is about teenagers and the adult crisis that surrounds them.