Carolina Bianchi

Carolina Bianchi is a writer, theatre director and performer born in Porto Alegre in Brazil and currently based in Europe. Her work emerges from a perspective of crisis, creating bold confabulations about sexual violence and the history of art. Her staging blends diverse references from literature and painting, centering on violence through text and bodies that incarnate sensorial and performative gestures. She is the director of the collective Cara de Cavalo (which translates to “horse’s face”) from São Paulo, with whom she has created the Cadela Força trilogy (2022-2027), O Tremor Magnífico (The magnificent tremor) in 2020, LOBO (Wolf) in 2018 and Mata-me de Prazer (Kill me by pleasure) in 2016. Among other projects are We Do Not Comfortably Contemplate the Sexuality of Our Mothers for Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2024 and Percurso for Fuori Bo Festival, Bologna 2023.

Since the premiere of Chapter I: The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella at the Festival d’Avignon 2023, the show toured major festivals and venues across Europe and Australia and was part of the Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna 2024, receiving warm acclaim from audiences and overwhelming praise from critics. It was awarded Best Foreign Premiere of the 2023/24 Season in France, selected by Le Prix du Syndicat de la Critique.