The Cadela Força Trilogy - Chapter I : The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella

Chapter One of the Cadela Força Trilogy, sees Brazilian artist and director Carolina Bianchi travel through time and states of consciousness to confront a vision of hell.

Shaken by the death of Italian artist Pippa Bacca—who was sexually assaulted and murdered while performing a work about human kindness—Bianchi presents a performance-lecture. She speaks vividly about the spectre of sexual violence that runs through the history of art, until she hits an impasse. Then things go dark. Bianchi ingests a drug known in Brazil as ‘Goodnight Cinderella’ and falls unconscious. Her dead weight and lived experience form the figure of an anti-protagonist that’s falling down a hole in the middle of the desert. Performers carry her inert body to a place where past and present collapse.

And inside this mirror world, she can finally ask: What’s in the void between sleep and death? What stories swirl around a memoryless body? What happens when someone survives?

*Part of this performance can have a disturbing effect. It contains references to rape and gender-specific violence. Please view warnings below.

WARNINGS
Contains detailed descriptions of violence against women, femicide, date rape drugs, sexual assault and self-harm. Smoke machine, strobe lights and loud sounds.

AGE RECOMMENDATION
This performance is not recommended for persons aged under 18. Certain scenes may offend some viewers.