CAROLINA BIANCHI Y CARA DE CAVALO – THE CADELA FORÇA TRILOGY: CHAPTER II — THE BROTHERHOOD Theatre

With the first part of her Cadela Força Trilogy (Summer Festival 2023), Carolina Bianchi and her performance collective propelled themselves into the nerve center of European performing arts. In the tradition of female performance artists, such as Marina Abramovi or Tania Bruguera, the Brazilian director, writer and performer put her own body on the line on stage. Her unsettlingly rigorous staged exploration of gender-based violence, art history and personal trauma recently earned her the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale. Now she returns to the Summer Festival with the German premiere of her follow-up work: The Brotherhood explores masculinity as fraternity and part of a system that perpetuates violence against women, yet still provokes admiration in the art world. In the first act, Bianchi interviews an influential theater director, Klaus Haas; in the second, a group of men hijacks the stage. Carolina Bianchi masterfully exposes male power dynamics, shared rituals and their cultural acceptance — and reminds us of the essential need for uncompromising female art in times of male destruction-politics.