In Rébecca Chaillon and Sandra Calderan’s workshop, writing is approached through the personal. Participants work with listographies of oneself and with mapping one’s feelings and commitments. The workshop draws on the realities of participants’ own bodies and lives, using the intimate as a means to engage with the world. As a continuation of working together, participants write an individual or group play.

Listography of oneself, mapping our feelings and commitments.

Travelling together for a while to write an individual or group performance.

Starting from the intimate to talk about the world, using your body and your life as your field of work.

You shouldn’t be afraid of getting lost, you shouldn’t pay too much attention to the time, and we think you’ll have a good time.

The workshop is a part of the Focus on the Local Landscape and organized by Tanssille Ry, in collaboration with Moving in November and Eskus.

Rébecca 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 explores 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), a performance about adolescence to question a world made by and for adults. Chaillon’s powerful duet Whitewashing was presented in the frame of Moving in November in 2024.

Rébecca Chaillon is an associate artist at the TnBA, Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, at the TPM, Théâtre Public Montreuil and is a satellite artist of the Théâtre Sorano – Scène conventionnée in Toulouse.
She is represented by L’Arche, agence théâtrale where Boudin Biguine Best of Banane (2023), Décolonisons les Arts (2018) and Lettres aux jeunes poétesses (2021), collective collections, are published.

Sandra Calderan has been writing poetry for many years—poetry meant to be spoken, heard, and experienced. As an actor and director, she conceives her poetic writing as a physical gesture, a bodily commitment that must be transmitted live. It is on stage that her poems acquire all their strength.

In 2013, she founded La Compagnie des Hauts Parleurs. She created her first show, l’Envol (silent theater and classical music trio), followed by a second in 2021, Just Us (poetry, dance, performance) which premiered at the Scène Nationale d’Orléans. A lighter version, Just Us, Poèmes à Cracher (poetry/music duo) is still touring. Poetry is at the heart of her work, which is engaged, political, and tirelessly retraces the stories of forgotten, wounded and luminous lives. In 2023, she created a show for young audiences inspired by Jacques Prévert’s L’Opéra de la Lune: Défile!

Within the Compagnie des Hauts Parleurs, she is also involved in numerous cultural initiatives for schools, and in partnership with libraries and theaters.

Sandra Calderan has collaborated for several years with Cirque Queer as author and director, Compagnie Monstra and Lucía Soto, Compagnie Eranos and Flor Paichard, stand-up comedian Lou Trotignon and with Rébecca Chaillon and Compagnie Dans Le Ventre.