Carolina Bianchi y Cara de Cavalo

We are in a space where the present collapses with the past, without early warning.

Resurrecting a performance in an attempt to find clues to an enigma so difficult to name, of a memory so incomplete to touch. What is the void between slip and die? What does this sleeping body dream of? How to go through this fragmentation between memory and dream, between imagination and feasible reality? What is done with all this information?

What happens when someone survives?

The first chapter of the theatrical trilogy Cadela Força, by the Brazilian director and author Carolina Bianchi, transits through layers of temporalities. A bunch of layers of corpses of women. Since she was disturbed by the news of the rape and death of an artist giving a performance related to the belief in human kindness, Bianchi began to weave a tapestry of stories that have in common narratives of rape followed by femicide. Together with her collective, Cara de Cavalo, she creates a journey into an abyss, a hole in the middle of the desert, a dive into a glass of a rape drink - a descent into hell.

Credits

Long title CADELA FORÇA TRILOGY - Chapter I: The Bride and Goodnight Cinderella Conception, text and direction Carolina Bianchi Dramaturgist and partnership in continuous research process Carolina Mendonça Cast Alitta, Carolina Bianchi, Chico Lima, Fernanda Libman, Joana Ferraz, José Artur Campos, Larissa Ballarotti, Marina Matheus and Rafael Limongelli Technical direction, sound design and original music Miguel Caldas Set design and art Luisa Callegari Lighting design João Rios Videos and screenings Montserrat Fonseca Llach Karaoke Video Thany Sanches Costumes Tomás Decina, Luisa Callegari and Carolina Bianchi Art Assistant and general artistic collaboration Tomás Decina Dialogue on theory and dramaturgy Silvia Bottiroli Collaboration in body and voice training Pat Fudyda and Yantó Stage manager and production support AnaCris Medina Production direction, tour manager and communication Carla Estefan Produced by Metro Gestão Cultural (Brasil), Carolina Bianchi y Cara de Cavalo Coproduced by Festival d’Avignon, KVS Brussels, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, Frascati Amsterdam Residency to finish the play and set construction La FabricA du Festival d’Avignon Residencies Frascati Theater, DAS Theatre (Amsterdam), Festival Proximamente/KVS (Brussels), Festival 21 Voltz/Central Elétrica (Porto), Pride Festival (Belgrade), Greta Galpão (São Paulo) and Espaço Desterro (Rio de Janeiro) Supported by Theater Der Welt, The Ammodo Foudation, DAS Theatre Master Program, 3 Package Deal of the AFK - Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst / Coalition: DAS Theatre, NDSM and Over ’t IJ Festival, Kaaitheater International management and difusion Metro Gestão Cultural

*The text of this show is made up of various stories, real-life documents and literary fictions. Some references are quoted directly in the text of the show. Others are worth highlighting here: In the first part of the show, the text contains quotes from Nathalie Léger and her book La Robe Blanche, from Renan Marcondes and his text Foto Fantasma, and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. In the second part of the show, the actress Alitta collaborates in her monologue, and quotes from Roberto Bolaño in his book 2666, and from writings by Rita Laura Segato.