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.
Master Degree in “Dance, Creation and Performance” from CNDC in Angers and the University of Paris 8 (2011/2013), developed as her research the creation of an “Anatomia Delirante”. In 2002 she studied in the Curso de Pesquisa e Criação Coreográfica at Fórum Dança and in 2015 in the Corografia Course at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She has participated in the research at c.e.m. exploring experiential anatomy, philosophy and multidisciplinary interconnectedness, with Sofia Neuparth, among others. In 2007/2010 she took the Curso de Instrutores de Chi Kung, at the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Lisbon.
Tatsumi Hijikata´s Butoh has been one of her areas of artistic investment. Since 2007 she has participated in various workshops led by artists such as: Tadashi Endo, Sankai Juko, Torifune, Akira Kasai, Min Tanaka, Yoshito Ohno, Patrick De Vos and Christine Greiner. In 2015 she received the Aperfeiçoamento Artístico Grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to study with Yoshito Ohno in Japan and, in 2016, she developed research around the practice of Butoh with the support of the Centre National de la Danse, CND (Pantin), Aide à la recherche et au patrimoine en danse.
Since 2009, Ana Rita Teodoro has choreographed the following solos – MelTe (2009), Curva (2010), and ASSOMBRO (2014-15) and the pieces that make up the collection Delirar a Anatomia: Orifice Paradise (2012), Sonho d’Intestino (2013), Palco e Pavilhão (2017). Her work has been shown in Austria, Germany, France and Portugal.
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