Carolina Bianchi / Cara De Cavalo & Metro Gestão Cultural / KVS
The Cadela Força TrilogyChapter 1 – The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella
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Do you know any women who, long after surviving a rape, have confided in you about their abuse? What did they tell you? What do they remember? Do you know about Pippa Bacca, the Italian artist who was raped and murdered while on tour?
Carolina Bianchi works from rape stories and also draws from art and literary history. In a theatrical language that balances from lecture performance to visual ensemble theatre, Bianchi brings these experiences and stories to life. The result exists somewhere between memory and dream, between imagination and a tangible reality. She engages physically, by exposing herself to the influence of a rape potion (known in Brazil as Boa Noite Cinderela or Goodnight Cinderella).
Her amnesiac body then turns her into a character amid the scenes in which the players of her collective get to work with material from Roberto Bolano's masterpiece 2666. A haunting performance, an attempt to find clues to what is so difficult to name, an ode to memory that is incomplete.
• Carolina Bianchi is a Brazilian theatre director, playwright and performer. She has been based in Amsterdam since graduating from the DAS Theatre master's programme but continues to work with her collective Cara de Cavalo ("the face of the horse"). She mixes literary, art and cinematic references in her work, which is situated between theatre, performance and dance. Her research addresses issues such as gender in crisis, sexual violence and art history.