Carolina Mendonça

Name: Carolina Mendonça — Something is Approaching
Start: 2026-11-13T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-13T21:10:00+01:00
Location: Minardschouwburg

Something is Approaching

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Thu 12.11

20:00 - 21:10

Minardschouwburg, Gent

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Fri 13.11

20:00 - 21:10

Minardschouwburg, Gent

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Mendonça’s pièce de résistance, literally

In ‘Something is Approaching’, Carolina Mendonça explores violence from a new angle: not the blow itself, but what lingers afterward and how it settles in the body. What if our muscles carry not only trauma, but also the power to strike back?

Triggerwarnings

Violence and abuse (includes sexual violence, domestic violence or partner violence, child abuse, police violence, war violence, emotional abuse)
Death and loss (includes dying, mourning, miscarriage, abortion)

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Concept, direction and text: Carolina Mendonça - Co-creation: Lara ferrari tummma - Performance: Anna Fedoronchuk - Dramaturgy and research partner: Carolina Bianchi - Light design and space: Leticia Skrycky, Laura Salerno - Sound/music: Charlie Usher - Somatic and choreographic accompaniment: Catalina Insignares - Costume: Stef Assandri - Costume assistance: Santiago Celio Cioli - Production: Hiros - Co-production: workspacebrussels, Beursschouwburg, BUDA - Residency support: Proximamente – KVS, residency programme at PACT Zollverein (Essen), funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Tenerife LAV, Kunstenwerkplaats - With support from: Vlaamse Gemeenschap - Thanks to: Aljoscha Begrich, Andrea Rodrigo, Arkadi Zaides, Coreia, Dudu Quintanilha, Elisa Liepsch, Ella De Gregoriis, Fernanda Farah, José Ramón Hernández, Larissa Ballarotti, Lucrecia Masson, Miguel Penaranda Olmeda, Sara Manente, Sima Djabar Zadegan