L’Alliance New York presents the US Premiere of The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella from October 23-25, 2025 at 7:30pm at Powerhouse Arts 322 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215. For tickets and more information, visit https://lallianceny.org/event/the-bride-and-the-goodnight-cinderella/.

In the first chapter of the Cadela Força Trilogy, Brazilian director and writer Carolina Bianchi stages a shocking and vulnerable exploration of art and narratives of sexual violence that haunt women across history. Blending theater and performance art, she constructs a layered, destabilizing tapestry of stories, images, movement, and figures drawn from both contemporary and art-historical sources.

The catalyst is a real event: the rape and murder of a performance artist whose work explored faith in human kindness. From there, Bianchi assembles a fractured mythology of femicide, where memory blurs and trauma generates new meaning. Created with the collective Cara de Cavalo, The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella is a journey into the abyss, a hole in the desert, a spiked glass of “Goodnight Cinderella.” What happens after?

“[A] landmark in the history of the Avignon Festival” — Joëlle Gayot, Le Monde

Co-presented with Powerhouse: International

In Brazilian Portuguese with English surtitles Duration: 150 minutes (no intermission)

Recommended for ages 18+. This performance contains intermittent loud music, strobe lights, haze, nudity and sexual assault. Certain emotionally intense and/or graphic scenes may offend spectators.

Carolina Bianchi is a Brazilian playwright, performer, and director of the São Paulo-based collective Cara de Cavalo (The Face of the Horse). Her work fuses literary and cinematic language, musical sampling, and physical risk to confront gender, sexual violence, and the legacies of art history. Her trilogy Cadela Força (Strength Bitch)—including the most recent installment, The Brotherhood, which premiered at Kunstenfestivaldesarts (2025)—has established her as a singular voice in experimental performance. Other major works include O Tremor Magnífico (The Magnificent Tremor) and Lobo (Wolf). In 2023, she premiered The Bride and Goodnight Cinderella at the Avignon Festival, followed by performances at GREC Barcelona, Kampnagel Hamburg, HAU Berlin, and Glasgow Festival. In 2024, she presented a reading-performance inspired by Chantal Akerman at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. She lives in Amsterdam. Carolina Bianchi was awarded the Silver Lion by Biennale di Danza di Venezia 2025.
This fall, artists from around the world converge at Powerhouse Arts to do what this moment demands: imagine what’s possible, provoke change, and spark collective joy. In a city built on bold expression and constant reinvention, artists and audiences move with each other’s stories, rhythms, and forms to begin something new.

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Crossing The Line is a citywide festival that engages international artists and New York City audiences in artistic discovery and critical dialogue to re-imagine the world around us. Crossing The Line is produced by L’Alliance New York in partnership with leading cultural institutions.