My Wild Flag is an international dance and performance festival in Stockholm that showcases local and international works highlighting contemporary choreographic and artistic practice. The festival presents innovative works in dance, choreography and performance, inviting audiences to discover new perspectives, forms of expression and encounters.
This year’s edition is a collaboration between My Wild Flag, MDT and Dansens Hus. MWF is now in its tenth year and continues to be a temporary hub for community, dance and social choreography. The festival is run and curated by Karina Sarkissova and Pontus Pettersson.
© Pietro Bertora
Wednesday
21:00 - 22:00
02.09.2026
Location
MDT
As the passing of a year is symbolised by a birthday cake, we are invited to consider the significance of this treat with care and attention.
In a raw and unsettling gesture, Rébecca Chaillon reimagines the act of baking a birthday cake, transforming this seemingly innocuous symbol. Eschewing metaphor, her body becomes the vessel in which the cake is prepared.
Accompanied on this occasion by Mona LaDoll, feminine illusionist and cabaret princess, Chaillon delivers a visceral performance that draws on the feminist tradition of performance art, her body operating simultaneously as subject and medium. Her actions unfold into a living sculpture, balancing subtly between profanity and mischief.
Ingredient by ingredient, the cake-making process becomes a conduit through which to explore not only joy but also the harsher facets of society: the brutal realities of consumption, the social pressures inscribed on bodies, and eating disorders. In this satirical reflection on both the need for celebration and its nature, the birthday cake becomes a vehicle for confronting uncomfortable truths.
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 second nature. Her artistic work revolves around theatre, performance, poetry and explores the domination-based relationships and the struggle against discrimination. 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), about adolescence to question a world made by and for adults.
She 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 (Toulouse). She is represented by L'Arche, agence théâtrale.
www.arche-editeur.com is where Boudin Biguine Best of Banane, including several of her theatrical texts (2023), Décolonisons les Arts (2018) and Lettres aux jeunes poétesses(2021), and collective collections are published.
Rébecca Chaillon
Rébecca Chaillon, and guest Mona LaDoll
Suzanne Péchenart
Élise Bernard, Amandine Loriol
Mélanie Charreton - O.u.r.s.a M.I.n.o.r