Cadela Força Trilogy Chapter I

A show that is both a fever dream and worst nightmare, beautiful and grisly.

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 Pippa Bacca—an Italian artist who was raped and killed while doing a travelling show—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 Cara de Cavalo's 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 in Session Details.