Carte Noire Nommée Désir starts with a funny story about colour and colonialism. That marks the beginning of a poetic journey on stage by a group of eight performers. They appropriate their own history as black women, in a country that has still not decolonised its own imaginary world.

On this journey, they question the hypersexualisation and exoticisation of their bodies. They talk about thinks like their (in)visibility in France and abroad and their alienation from its whiteness and colonial history. Carte Noire Nommée Désir attempts to function as a performative empowerment, a work that spares neither the ears nor the eyes.

• Multi-talent Rébecca Chaillon is a writer, director, performer, dancer and comedienne from Picardy, France, with roots in Martinique. She studied performing arts at the Paris Conservatoire and in 2006 founded the company 'Dans le Ventre'. She is currently with the Théâtre de la Manufacture - CDN de Nancy. We are proud to welcome her to Kaaitheater for the first time.