Whitewashing
by Rébecca Chaillon and Aurore Déon
  
Concept and text: Rébecca Chaillon and Aurore Déon
Translation/Subtitling: Lisa Wegener
General Stage Management and Technical Operations: Suzanne Péchenart
Production / Developement : Mélanie Charreton and Oursa Minor / Elise Bernard and Amandine Loriol
Production: Compagnie Dans le Ventre
 
 
On stage: Rébecca Chaillon, Aurore Déon.  
 
 
The Dans le ventre Company is supported by the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Hauts de France – French Ministry of Culture.

Rebecca Chaillon
Rebecca 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 ex-plores 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 ainsi qu'au Théâtre Sorano à 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) and Lettres aux jeunes poétesses, collective collection (2021) are published.
 
 
Aurore Déon
Aurore Déon has been an actress, performer, director, and co-artistic director of Cie Comme Si since 2008. She has written and directed shows such as Cendrillon and Baskets Rouges (a dystopian tale of how to stop counting sheep), blending theater, video, and dance. A multi-disciplinary artist, Aurore trained in theater at Paris III and EDT91 (class I), as well as in Hip Hop/House Dance and Tap Dance, with studies spanning Paris, New York, and Barcelona. In 2004, she won the Juste Debout International Battle in the Hip Hop category, and she continues to explore a hybrid artistic practice that integrates all of these disciplines. For 10 years, she worked with Cie Entrées de Jeu, specializing in forum theater. She has also performed under the direction of Robert Wilson and the folk group Co-coRosie, as well as Julia Vidit, Marie Piemontese, Souâd Belhaddad, and Matthieu Roy. Notably, she appeared in Prodiges, which was nominated for Best Cast by The Stage magazine at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Additionally, she collaborates with Rébecca Chaillon, writing and performing in the shows Carte Noire Nommée Désir and Whitewashing, the latter winning the Zurich Theater Spektakel Festival award. Aurore also appears in Elisabeth Vogler’s film Années 20, which won an award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. She produces and hosts the podcast Ça va la vie d'artiste?, and regularly leads workshops and courses in writing, acting, movement, and performance for a wide audience. Her written work Si Ça Ne Tenait Qu'à Moi, Je Raconterais D'autres Histoires is currently on tour as a performative musical reading.