Rébecca Chaillon & Aurore Déon

Whitewashing

VIERNULVIER

Fri 03.04

20:00 - 21:15

De Vooruit - Domzaal

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Pulverise all your preconceptions.

‘Whitewashing’ is a playful yet confronting performance that brings clichés and fantasies surrounding Black women vividly to the stage. Rébecca Chaillon and Aurore Déon make visible what is often hidden: how colonial and sexist biases continue to shape bodies, gazes, and spaces.

Each performance evolves, but always revolves around two opposing forces: one fragile and rooted in a floor that is never quite white enough, the other strong, challenging, and full of creative energy. Together, they weave a story exposing the historical invisibility of Black women and the burdens they have carried.

With humor and hypnotic repetition, ‘Whitewashing’ confronts audiences with prejudices, clichés, and societal expectations around Black women, inviting reflection on care, self-preservation, and resistance. A performance that is both intense and liberating, raising profound questions about power, identity, and (in)visibility.

trigger warnings

Smoking occurs on stage
Fire or pyrotechnics are used on stage
Strong smells (bleach)
Discrimination and inequality
The performance contains nudity

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Credits

Concept & Text: Rébecca Chaillon & Aurore Déon - With: Rébecca Chaillon and Aurore Déon - Stage Management: Suzanne Péchenart - Translation & Subtitling: Lisa Wegener - Production / Development: Mélanie Charreton - O.u.r.s.a M.I.n.o.r – Administration & Touring: Elise Bernard, Manon Crochemore & Amandine Loriol

Rébecca Chaillon is represented by L’Arche - Agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com

Production Compagnie Dans le Ventre

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

Would you like more information about trigger warnings?

technical triggers:

Smoking occurs on stage
Fire or pyrotechnics are used on stage
Strong smells (bleach)

thematic triggers:

Discrimination and inequality
( includes racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, ableism -discrimination based on disability-)
The performance contains nudity