Tramway and Take Me Somewhere present:
CAROLINA BIANCHI & CARA DE CAVALO (Netherlands/Brazil)
CADELA FORÇA TRILOGY CHAPTER 1:
THE BRIDE & THE GOODNIGHT CINDERELLA
SAT 14 OCTOBER 2023 19.30-22:05
£15 - £10 (Concessions)
Age guidance 18+
Tramway (Directions)
CONTENT NOTES: Detailed descriptions of violence against women, femicide, date rape drugs, rape, a reference to violence against black and indigenous women. Contains images & descriptions of self cutting. Smoke machine, strobe lights, loud sound.
ACCESS: CC, SP (Festival Access Page)
The performance contains a lot of text, which is spoken in Portuguese, translated into English and Captioned.
Subpacs are available.
A welfare support person will be available for audiences onsite. We encourage audiences who may find the content challenging but still wish to attend to consider coming with a trusted companion.
We are in a space where the present collapses with the past. 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? What happens when someone survives?
The first chapter of the trilogy CADELA FORÇA, by the Brazilian director and author Carolina Bianchi, transits through layers of temporalities. Disturbed by the news of the rape and death of an Italian artist Pippa Bacca in 2008 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. In a process of mirroring and confrontation Carolina puts her own body in a performative process of extreme vulnerability falling unconscious in the work at a point undefined. Launching confabulations about sexual violence and art history, her staging is a combination of different references from literature and painting, filled with musical mashups, with modes of delivery part Ted Talk, part choreography, part documentary and dreamscape. 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 date rape drink - a descent into hell.
Carolina Bianchi is a Brazilian theatre maker, writer and performer based in Amsterdam. Director of the collective organisation CARA DE CAVALO-collective from São Paulo (“horse face”), she uses references to literature, plastic arts, and cinema to confront reality. Her research has led her to spaces between theatre, performance, and dance, to deal with questions having to do with the crisis of gender, sexual violence, and art history.
Conception, text, dramaturgy and direction Carolina Bianchi
Dramaturgist and partnership in continuous research process Carolina Mendonça
CAST: Blackyva, Carolina Bianchi, Chico Lima, Fernanda Libman, Joana Ferraz, José Artur Campos, Larissa Ballarotti, Marina Matheus, Rafael Limongelli
Technical direction, sound design and original music Miguel Caldas
Set design and art Luisa Callegari
Light design Jo Rios
Videos and screenings Montserrat Fonseca Llach
Karaoke Video Thany Sanches
Costumes Tomás Decina, Luisa Callegari, Carolina Bianchi
Art Assistant and general artistic collaboration Tomás Decina
Collaboration in body and voice training Pat Fudyda, Yantó
Dialogue on theory and dramaturgy Silvia Bottiroli
Translation of texts into English and revision Luisa Dalgalarrondo, Marina Matheus, Joana Ferraz, Larissa Ballarotti
Translation to French (subtitles) Tomas Resendes
Production support Ella de Gregoriis
Production Director & Tour Manager Carla Estefan
The show premiered on the July 6th - 2023 at the Festival d’Avignon
Production Metro Gestão Cultural (BR), Carolina Bianchi y Cara de Cavalo
Co-production Festival d’Avignon, KVS Brussels, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, Frascati Producties - Amsterdam.
With support by Foundation Ammodo, DAS Theatre Master Program, 3 Package Deal of AFK - Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, NDSM, Over het IJ Festival, Theater der Welt, Kaaitheater (Brussels).
Photos: Christophe Raynaud de Lage