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.
David began to develop his work as a choregrapher in 2007 with the support of EIRA in Lisbon. Since then, he has shown his pieces in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, the Ukraine and Israel. He created ‘Motor de Busca’, ‘Future Plans’, ‘KIN’ and ‘Conquest’, a choreographed adaptation of a Deborah Hay solo, commissioned by the Serralves Foundation. He dcreated the trilogy ‘Bête de Scène’/’Images de Bêtes’/’THE POWERS THAT B’ with Ido Feder. With Tiago Cadete, he created ‘Apagão’, a piece in the dark (Festival Temps D’images and Citemor). As highlights of his work as performer he lists his work with Francisco Camacho, Filipa Francisco, Tiago Guedes (‘Materiais Diversos’), Lígia Teixeira, Maya Levy&Anando Mars, Bosmat Nossan, Loic Touzé, David Wampach, Lucie Tumova, Raquel Castro and Emily Wardill. He has directed choreography composition ateliers at Fórum Dança in Lisboa, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, as part of the project Dance Research (SIDance) in Seul and at Danslab in Brussels. He founded PARCA.
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