In this new work, Carolina Mendonça continues her investigation into violence — not in its immediate explosion, but in its afterlife. Something is Approaching looks beyond the moment of the violent act to trace its long-term effects: the way violence settles into muscle, shapes attention, distorts imagination. If Zones of Resplendence (presented in 2023) imagined an army rising against sexual violence, this new piece lingers with what violence implants in us: tension, rumination, a sort of damnation, a muscular readiness.

What if our muscles are not only sites of trauma, but also of resistance? What if they have been rehearsing — quietly, daily — for the moment of return? For the moment to fight back? What type of stories are stuck to our tissues that could be released by a single jolt, a sudden movement — a bullet?

This is a choreography of muscular dreams. Bodies that once froze begin to stir — charged by years of imagined confrontations. Ghostly bodies find a space where their haunting can pause. Dreaming becomes a kind of training — a rehearsal for defense. Choreography, a way of sharpening.

about

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 Zones of Resplendence (2023) which speculates around feminist perspectives on violence, Sirens (2021), an attempt to listen to the sirens chant as a collective practice, Pulp - History as a Warm Wet Place (2018), which deals with intuitive archaeology digesting the leftovers of the XVII-XVIII centuries, useless land (2018) where together with Catalina Insignares they invite de audience to sleep while they read through the night. Carolina was also one of the curators of NIDO (2022) together with Suely Rolnik and Victoria Perez Royo; of the Performing Arts Festival VERBO (2017) at Galeria Vermelho and Temporada de Dança (2017) at Videobrasil both in São Paulo. She develops practical, theoretical research that she shares in the workshops dealing with telepathy, levitation and deep listening, among other practices. Carolina always builds her work in collaboration with artists such as Catalina Insignares, Marcelo Evelin, Marcela Santander, Dudu Quintanilha, and Carolina Bianchi.
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