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Carolina Bianchi Y Cara de Cavalo / Metro Gestão Cultural

Trilogia Cadela Força
Capitulo I: A Noiva e o Boa Noite Cinderela

November

2024

Fri
22
Sat
23

Sinopse

What happens when someone survives? The first chapter of the trilogy Cadela Força [Bitch Strength], by theatre director and author Carolina Bianchi, covers several layers of time. Ever since she got distraught over the news of the rape and death of a female artist who was presenting a performance related to the belief in human kindness, Carolina Bianchi started to work on a series of stories that share narratives of rape followed by femicide. With her collective, Cara de Cavalo, she creates a journey into the abyss, a hole in the middle of the desert, a plunge into a rape drinking glass: a descent into Hell. — Cara de Cavalo

This performance includes depictions of sexual violence, nudity and femicide.

performance

feminicide

patriarchy

Colour scene photography. At a table, Carolina Bianchi, dressed in white, black hair up, red lipstick, holds a glass with water, ice and a green straw. On the table, drinks and a transparent chalice with a green candle.

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Colour scene photography. Carolina Bianchi lying, head down, mouth open, on the bonnet of a car. The car, dark, has its lights on and green neons. The licence plate reads: FUCK CATHARSIS.

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Colour scene photography. Carolina Bianchi, standing at a table, pours liquid from a can into a glass. The glass is on the table among other containers and a lit green candle. Behind her, a projected illustration on which the name of the performance is di

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Colour photography. In the foreground, the show's performers, wearing dark clothes, in different positions. In the background, an image of a sunset.

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Info sobre horário e bilhetes

Fri

22.11

Sat

23.11

Campo AlegreAuditorium

tickets

Aditional info

  • Price 
    12€
  • Duration 
    2h30

  • Age rating 
    18+

Acessibilidades do espetáculo

Accessible to wheelchair users
Text
Subtitling
Strobe or intense lights
Loud or intense sounds

Author's bio text

Carolina Bianchi is a Brazilian theatre director, writer and performer living in Amsterdam since 2020. Her theatre work inseparably combines theory and practice, and she often chooses to work with several casts and different choral elements. Her pieces take crisis as a starting point to introduce confabulations on gender, sexual violence and art history. Combining different literature, film and painting references, her work is full of musical mash-ups and constantly confronts all that resembles an absolute truth. She is the director of the Cara de Cavalo collective from São Paulo, with which she created the trilogy Cadela Força (2022/25), and the pieces O Tremor Magnífico (2020) and Lobo (2018). In 2023, Bianchi premiered the first instalment of the trilogy Cadela Força — A Noiva e a Cinderela da Boa Noite — in the scope of the Avignon Festival.

Co-presentation with:
Alkantara – Culturgest (Lisbon), Festival d'Automne–La Villette (Paris)

Ficha Técnica

  • Concept, text, dramaturgy and direction
    Carolina Bianchi

    English translation and proofreading
    Larissa Ballarotti, Luísa Dalgalarrondo, Joana Ferraz, Marina Matheus

    Dramaturgy and partnership in the ongoing research process
    Carolina Mendonça

    Cast
    Alitta, Carolina Bianchi, Chico Lima, Fernanda Libman, Joana Ferraz, José Artur, Larissa Ballarotti, Marina Matheus, Rafael Limongelli

    Technical direction, sound design and original music
    Miguel Caldas

    Set design, art and graphic design
    Luisa Callegari

    Lighting design
    Jo Rios

    Videos and projections
    Montserrat Fonseca Llach

    Karaoke video
    Thany Sanches

    Costumes
    Tomás Decina, Luisa Callegari, Carolina Bianchi

    Art assistant and overall artistic collaborator
    Tomás Decina

    Body and voice coaching assistants
    Pat Fudyda, Yantó

    Dialogue on theory and dramaturgy
    Silvia Bottiroli

    Photographs
    Christophe Raynaud de Lage

  • Production assistant and stage manager
    AnaCris Medina

    Production director and tour manager
    Carla Estefan

    Management and international promotion
    Metro Gestão Cultural (Brazil)

    Produced by
    Metro Gestão Cultural (Brazil), Carolina Bianchi Y Cara de Cavalo

    Co-produced by
    Festival d'Avignon, KVS Brussels, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne, Frascati Amsterdam

    Residency to finish the piece and build the set
    La FabricA du Festival d'Avignon

    Residencies
    Teatro Frascati, DAS Theatre (Amsterdam), Proximamente Festival/KVS (Brussels), 21 Volts Festival/Central Elétrica (Porto), Pride Festival (Belgrade), Greta Galpão (São Paulo), Espaço Desterro (Rio de Janeiro)

    Support
    Theater der Welt, Ammodo Foundation, DAS Theatre, 3Package Deal – Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Kaaitheater

    The text of this performance crosses several authors. We would like to highlight the collaboration of the actress Alitta in the text for the second part of the piece, Nathalie Léger and her book The White Dress, the writings of Saidiya Hartman, the work of anthropologist Rita Laura Segato, the bibliography of Roberto Bolaño and talks with artist Renan Marcondes.  

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