Carolina Bianchi is a writer, theatre director, and performer born in Porto Alegre-Brazil, and currently based in Europe. Awarded with the Silver Lion of Biennale di Danza di Venezia in 2025, she directs her company CARA DE CAVALO since 2015, and with whom has most recently created Trilogia Cadela Força, chapter I: The bride and the Goodnight Cinderella that premiered in Festival D’Avignon in 2023, Chapter II: the Brotherhood premiered in Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025. The texts of chapter 1 and 2 of The Cadela Força trilogy are published in French by the Les Solitaires Intempestifs editions.
Carolina Mendonça has a Master in Choreography and Performance at Giessen University in Germany and Graduated in Performing Arts at ECA-USP in Brazil. Her latest projects are Something is Approaching (2025) a rumination on how our muscles might be silently preparing for self defense and Zones of Resplendence (2023), which speculates around feminist perspectives on violence.