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.
Gustavo Ciríaco (Rio de Janeiro) is a choreographer and contextual artist whose work moves between the performing arts and the arts of the image, performance, architecture, anthropology and landscaping. A political scientist and ballet dancer by training, with degrees from the Angel Vianna School (Rio de Janeiro) and the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences-UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro), Ciríaco formed the Ikswalsinats Dance Duo with Frederico Paredes for 10 years, a pioneer in the use of humour in contemporary Brazilian dance. Marked by a pronounced site-specific profile, his works create a dialogue between context and architecture, geography and dwelling, reality and fiction, in continuous research over the last 20 years into the extensive fields of dance-making. Ciríaco has worked transversally across different fields of knowledge and the arts, and their distinct modes of interaction, gathering tools and insights into how to deal with common time and space. To this end, his work has involved dance, theatre, video, landscape constructions, storytelling and urban actions in conversation pieces where the dimensions of the encounter are the inspiration for fictions and shared situations. Themes such as present & presence, landscape representation, perception, urban space, situated performance, cognitive immersion are constantly addressed in her work.
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