Carolina Mendonça
Director
Carolina Mendonça earned a master’s degree in Choreography and Performance from Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany and graduated in Performing Arts from University of São Paulo in Brazil. Her latest projects include “Zones of Resplendence” (2023), exploring feminist perspectives on violence, “Sirens” (2021), a collective listening to siren songs, and “Pulp-History as a Warm Wet Place” (2018), investigating intuitive archaeology. Carolina Mendonça co-curated NIDO (2022) in Uruguay and festivals such as the VERBO Performance Arts Festival and Videobrasil (2017). She has developed practical-theoretical research on topics such as telepathy, levitation and deep listening, sharing this knowledge in workshops. Mendonça creates her work in close collaboration with other artists like Catalina Insignares and Carolina Bianchi.
Carolina Mendonça as participant of the International Forum 2015:
Director, São Paulo, Brazil
Carolina Mendonça (1984, São Paulo/Brazil) works with dance, theatre and visual arts, allowing the contamination of knowledge and being vulnerable to other logics. She graduated in Performing Arts at ECA-USP and obtained a Master in Choreography and Performance at Giessen University with the support of a DAAD scholarship. Her latest productions are “We, the Undamaged others” (2017 at Oswald de Andrade and MIT-2018), “Falling” (2016 at Mousonturm, Frankfurt), “Tragedy: a Tragedy” (at SESC Pompéia São Paulo in 2014) and Caixa Cultural at Curitiba, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro in 2016) and “A Radically Condensed History of Post-Industrial Life”, which won the CCJ First Works Prize and the Myrian Muniz Award, entailing a national tour in 2013. Carolina collaborates with artists such as Catalina Insignares, Dudu Quintanilha, Volmir Cordeiro and Marcelo Evelin and shows at festivals such as Kyoto Experiment, Festival d`Automnne, Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, ImPulsTanz and others.
Sursignal allied members: Myriam Lefkowitz, Théo Robine-Langlois, Simon Ripoll-Hurier.
As of: April 2025