Performance / Work in Progress | Forum Theatertreffen 1965–2025
Something Is Approaching
By and with Carolina Mendonça (IF 2015), São Paulo, & Lara Ferrari
Something Is Approaching © Matias Gutierrez
Carolina Mendonça and her team explore how choreography and bodily practices can serve as a feminist form of self-defence.
A unique experience marked a turning point in the work of Carolina Mendonça: “Some years ago my body started to feel different. It felt like it was producing a kind of new fluid which was traveling through my veins. For lack of a better word, I started calling it rage. I didn’t know what to do with it.”
After “Zones of Resplendence” (2023), in which she imagined what a feminist army fighting against sexual oppression might look like, some questions were inevitable. Certain practices demanded more time. “Something is Approaching” will premiere in June 2025 in Brussels and will be developed in residencies in Arts Centre BUDA and PACT Zollverein.
Artistic Team
Carolina Mendonça – Concept, Choreography, Text
Lara Ferrari – Co-Creation
Carolina Bianchi – Dramaturgy and Research Partner
Catalina Insignares – Outside Eye
Leticia Skrycky, Laura Salerno – Lighting Design
HIROS – Production
Steff Assandri – Costume Design and Space
With
Lara Ferrari, Carolina Mendonça
WIPCOOP & KVS/ PROXIMAMENTE festival residency 2024 with the support of Flemish Community; workspacebrussels; Beursschouwburg; Viernulvier; Proximamente; BUDA & residency programme at PACT Zollverein (Essen), funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.