Chapter One of the Cadela Força Trilogy; The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella 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?
Presented with Malthouse as part of RISING this June. Tickets on sale now: bit.ly/4aTkP8A
Part of this performance can have a disturbing effect. It contains references to rape and gender-specific violence. Please view warnings in Session Details on the website.
