Marga Alfeirão will be in residence working on her new creation, KITADA.

KITADA is a new choreographic work by Marga Alfeirão that explores female desire and eroticism, as well as intergenerational connections between women.

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A dreamlike army of void and presence, where the boundaries between political and social intervention dissolve, giving rise to a space charged with silence, noise, non-linear information, weight, and the fluctuation of time.

Full programme will be announced in September.

Artists in residency from 14 to 25 October 2026:
❦ Bibi Dória
❦ Connor Scott
❦ Grilo & Inês Campos
❦ Luísa Saraiva
❦ Marga Alfeirão
❦ Miguel Bonneville & Sofia Dinger
❦ Natacha Campos
❦ Pedro Barreiro
❦ Reina del Mar

FUTURΛ is an invitation to reinvent curatorial practices: a peer-to-peer space for imagining possible futures with courage, care, and an openness to what has yet to be named. A seminar for programmers, artists and cultural practitioners, FUTURΛ offers a space for listening, critical exchange and experimentation, responding to the urgent need to rethink curatorial practice today. From an intersectional feminist perspective, it brings together professionals from the performing arts in a gathering dedicated to curating as an artistic, political and social practice.

Matéria Viva is Materiais Diversos’ new programme, developed in partnership with Alkantara (Lisbon) and O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo), with the support of Fundação GDA.

Matéria Viva is a training, mentoring and capacity-building programme aimed at performer-creators and emerging cultural practitioners working in contemporary performing arts and their more hybrid expansions. Conceived as a space of care, exchange and critical thinking, the programme seeks to strengthen the autonomy of those at the beginning of their professional journeys, providing practical tools to help make their artistic practices more sustainable, structured and resilient over time.

Gaya de Medeiros and Piny pitch during the materiais adversos weekend.

Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with the Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) focused on hosting artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with conditions for research, creation, and the development of their projects in Lisbon.

Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) for the hosting of artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with the conditions to research, create and develop their projects in Lisbon. Filipe Pereira was the artist invited by Materiais Diversos to lead Clube das Flores, which took place between February and June 2026 in Minde and Alcanena.

Literally, it means being crossed (atravessada) by something, by many things. To be intersected. To be mischievous, to unsettle. To serve myself on a platter. To be a street crossing between two larger streets. To be a crossing.

November — Lisbon, with and during Alkantara Festival
The third gathering, taking place within the framework of Alkantara Festival, focuses on artistic circulation, exploring festivals as strategic infrastructures for visibility, value creation, a fairer distribution of resources, and sustainable international cooperation.

DRIFT research process sharing

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Matéria Viva is Materiais Diversos’ new programme, developed in partnership with Alkantara (Lisbon) and O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo), with the support of Fundação GDA.

Matéria Viva is a training, mentoring and capacity-building programme aimed at performer-creators and emerging cultural practitioners working in contemporary performing arts and their more hybrid expansions. Conceived as a space of care, exchange and critical thinking, the programme seeks to strengthen the autonomy of those at the beginning of their professional journeys, providing practical tools to help make their artistic practices more sustainable, structured and resilient over time.

The European project DRIFT – Dance and Research In the Future Time is a programme dedicated to research, support and artistic development for mid-career choreographic and interdisciplinary artists. It is led by an international consortium of festivals and cultural institutions, of which Materiais Diversos is a partner.

A dreamlike army of void and presence, where the boundaries between political and social intervention dissolve, giving rise to a space charged with silence, noise, non-linear information, weight, and the fluctuation of time.

Literally, it means being crossed (atravessada) by something, by many things. To be intersected. To be mischievous, to unsettle. To serve myself on a platter. To be a street crossing between two larger streets. To be a crossing.

Literally, it means being crossed (atravessada) by something, by many things. To be intersected. To be mischievous, to unsettle. To serve myself on a platter. To be a street crossing between two larger streets. To be a crossing.

Boba da Corte (2027) by Gaya de Medeiros is a project born from the desire to look at a generation of children of working-class parents who have achieved social mobility into the middle class and allowed themselves the luxury of dreaming.

Gaya de Medeiros’ residency at La Briqueterie.