The Materiais Diversos Festival promotes the meeting of different audiences and imaginaries around the arts (dance, theatre, music and performance) with thought, questioning actuality and fostering cultural participation as a condition for citizenship. Born in Minde, in 2009, it spread to Alcanena and Cartaxo (in 2013) and became one of the most representative projects for programming outside the large centres in Portugal, attempting to think and act from the places it originates. It had been occurring annually until 2017 and became a biannual event starting with its 10th edition in 2019.
From the 3rd to the 12th of October 2025, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations.
Dream is the Dreamer is the title for a spatial evocation.
A solo exercise for stage, designed for 1 per- former and 3 plastic bags, where a fictional topography is activated, establishing a collective imaginary, projected through the development of word and gesture.
The empty space is intercepted by a protocol of coordinates, where a sequence of science fiction events is described and embodied, building a scenic time zone.
The construction of the sensitive experience of the body starts from the exercise of contemplation, where a solitary character stands in contrast to the horizon line.
Through the manipulation of plastic objects, the monstrous dimensions of a body-flesh-skin, are put in relation and evidence.
The gesture’s vocabulary is inspired in the codifications of NOH Theatre and used with the aim to generate situations of analogy and abstraction, relating the scenic word.
The themes of this project reflect the interest on Anthropocentrism, Post-Humanism, Aeroscene, Science Fiction, Atomic World and Ecology. This project saw it’s begging during Master EX- ERCE between 2016-18 and it was premiered at DDD Festival, in May 2019.
Sofia Matos
sofia.matos@materiaisdiversos.com
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