Practical Programme
Mar 2024 10h00 18h00
Mar 2024 10h00 16h30
Mar 2024 10h00 16h30
Mar 2024 10h00 16h30
Mar 2024 10h00 16h30
applications closed
La Bellone
Rue de Flandre 46 - 1000 Bruxelles

People

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Rébecca Chaillon

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Performing the intimate, making political fiction through writing and performance.

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Performing the intimate

Workshop at the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in April 2023 during the festival Hors Limites (image : Charlène Yves).
Workshop at the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in April 2023 during the festival Hors Limites (image : Charlène Yves).

As part of her visit to Brussels for her performance Plutôt vomir que faillir at the Théâtre National (co-produced by Kaaitheater), Cifas has invited Rébecca Chailllon to lead a five-day workshop for artists in all fields of work. With Plutôt vomir que faillir (Rather vomit than fail) as an exercise in autofiction, the director invites participants to take their intimacy and their bodies as a starting point for creating political fiction through writing and performance.

Use our bodies as a map to be captioned, to fall within an even larger territory. Use our skin, our limbs, our curves, our fluids like so many hollows and bumps in which we walk. It is difficult and enjoyable. Enjoy the things that grow and regrow within us and around us. And, if possible, set about making political fiction out of our intimacy, writing ourselves live, with vulnerability and omnipotence. A story within history. Painting the world around us, mapping it using the tools of writing, performance and all the knowledge we possess, both noble and ignoble. Thinking of the body as political, to break out of the shackles of the institutional body.

Workshop at the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in April 2023 during the festival Hors Limites (image : Charlène Yves).
Workshop at the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in April 2023 during the festival Hors Limites (image : Charlène Yves).

Rébecca Chaillon

Workshop at the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in April 2023 during the festival Hors Limites (image : Charlène Yves).
Workshop at the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in April 2023 during the festival Hors Limites (image : Charlène Yves).

Rébecca Chaillon is a director, performer and author, a member of the RER Q collective and a Scorpio Taurus rising. She fights like she breathes, loves debates and performing naked. Her family: the Dans le Ventre company. Made confident by Rodrigo Garcia, she has been working since 2014 on performative shows in which she is on stage, alone, with 2 or 11 people, but always there. To tackle systems of domination through women's football (Où la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu'elle broute.) or write an Afrofuturist tale where black women are at the centre (Carte Noire nommée Désir). Rébecca Chaillon loves to tell stories of desire, hunger, violence and the body with love, humour and food.

To know more → Dans le Ventre company

Language

French

Dates and times

  • Monday 18 March - 10:00 > 18:00
  • Tuesday 19 March – 10:00 > 16:30
  • Wednesday 20 March – 10:00 >16:30
  • Thursday 21 March - OFF
  • Friday 22 March – 10:00 > 16:30
  • Saturday 23 March – 10:00 > 16:30

Where

La Bellone

Conditions

Free workshop including lunches.

Participation

This workshop is aimed at artists of all fields, on application.

Applications closed

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get into touch:

Beth Gordon

beth@cifas.be