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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.

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Artistic Residencies
21 January 2020 – 29 December 2019
Centro Cultural do Cartaxo

Rite of Decay

Joana Castro

(1988, Porto) Began her studies in dance at Balleteatro Professional School in 2006, attended the course PEPCC (Choreographique Creation, Dance Research and Training Programme) in Forum Dança in 2008, received a scholarship from NEC in 2009 and in 2013 with the support of Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, participates at DanceWeb Schoolarship Programme of Impulstanz Festival (Vienna, Austria) and in 2016/17 studies at postgraduate course in specialization of performance art at University of Fine Arts at Porto.
As a performer and collaborator worked with Né Barros, Victor Hugo Pontes, Ana Borralho and João Galante, Joclécio Azevedo, Mariana Tengner Barros, Flávio Rodrigues, Isabel Barros, Joana Providência, Carlota Lagido, Maurícia Barreira Neves, among others.
Since 2009 develops her own work presented in Festivals in Portugal, Belgium, France and Germany.
In 2012 represents Portugal at Les Repérages/Danse à Lille and with the support of the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian integrates the choreografic residency “Correios em Movimento/Dança em Trânsito in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
At the moment is in creation of her new choreographic project RITE OF DECAY to première in 2019 and on tour with her solo SU8MARINO.

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Rite Of Decay is a choreographic project by Joana Castro, in collaboration with the song Diana Combo, which will be premiered in February 2020 at the GUIdance Festival at the Vila Flor Cultural Center (Guimarães).
Rite Of Decay is a dance about death, or several deaths. The management of a body that multiplies in others, already extinct or to come. In decay, which exposes itself, which fails, where everything and nothing, persistence and renunciation, presence and absence, meet in the attempt to reconcile with the end. The end of the world as a metaphor for our own degradation.

Preview
25 de Janeiro, 21h30
Centro Cultural do Cartaxo

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