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 5th to the 15th of October 2023, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations. Slowing down and making people, places and processes visible are the mottos of the 12th edition of the festival.
Has a Bachelor Degree in Modern and Contemporary (ISCTE), specialized in Contemporary Culture and Philosophy (FCSH-UNL), and in Theatre Studies (UL). Between 2009 and 2012 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Her Doctoral thesis NO ALEPH, with a view towards ACARTE Service from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation between 1984 and 1989, received an Honourable Mention in Contemporary History From the Mário Soares Foundation. Researcher at IFILNOVA, part of the group Culture, Power and Identities of the Institute of Contemporary History and the group Theory and Aesthetics of Contemporary Performative Arts of the Centro de Estudos de Teatro. Is a co-founder and curator of the baldio platform| Estudos de Performance, and dramaturg in theatre and dance having worked with Romeu Costa, Marta Carreiras, Raquel Castro and Mariana Tengner Barros, Manuel Henriques, Romeu Costa, Miguel Castro Caldas, Bruno Bravo and Gonçalo Amorim. Received a Dwigth Conquergood Award at Performance Studies international #17, Utrecht.
Diversos