Carolina Bianchi is a writer, theatre director, and performer born in Porto Alegre-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 incarnates sensorial and performative gestures. 

 

She was awarded with the Silver Lion of Biennale di Danza di Venezia in 2025.

 

She is the director of the São Paulo-based collective CARA DE CAVALO, with whom has most recently created Trilogia Cadela Força, chapter I: The bride and the Goodnight Cinderella thar premiered in Festival D’Avignon in 2023, , Chapter II: the Brotherhood premiered in Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025. Her previous shows include O Tremor Magnífico (The Magnificent Tremor, 2020), LOBO (Wolf, 2018), and Mata-me de Prazer (Kill Me of Pleasure, 2016). Among other projects are We Do Not Comfortably Contemplate the Sexuality of Our Mothers for Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels 2024.

 

Since the premiere of the first chapter of Cadela Força trilogy, The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella, the show toured major festivals and venues across Europe and Australia, receiving warm acclaim from audiences and overwhelming praise from critics. The show was awarded Best Foreign Premiere of the 2023/24 Season in France, selected by the Le Prix du Syndicat de la Critique. The texts of The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella and The Brotherhood are published in French by the Les Solitaires Intempestifs editions.

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