Carolina Bianchi is a writer, theatre director, and performer born in Porto Alegre- Brazil, and based in Europe since 2020. 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 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 (premiere at Festival d'Avingon2023), Chapter II: The Brotherhood ( premiere at KVS, in the frame of 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 (2024) and Percurso (2023). Since the premiere of the first chapter of TRILOGIA CADELA FORÇA, The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella toured major festivals and venues across Europe and Australia, receiving warm acclaim from audiences and overwhelming praise from critics. Carolina Bianchi was awarded with the Silver Lion 2025, by Biennale di Danza di Venezia. Chapter I: The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella was awarded Best Foreign Premiere of the 2023/24 Season in France, selected by the Le Prix du Syndicat de la Critique. The text The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella was published in French by Les Solitaires Intempestifs.