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.
Ivana Müller explores the poetics of language, rethinks the notion of body, movement and voice and their forms of representation, revisits the place of imagination and the imaginary, and questions the idea of “participation” through her choreographic and theatrical work as well as her performances, installations, texts and videos. In her experimental, radical and formally innovative work, she often considers the idea of social choreography. The notion of the collective and collaboration is equally important in Ivana Müller’s approach to artistic practice itself. She often works in collaboration with artists, theorists, writers and gardeners, applying the principles of conversation and other forms of collective writing to the creation of the work. She teaches or has taught frequently, notably at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Université Paris 8, University of the Arts Zürich, University of the Arts Berlin, P.A.R.T.S. Bruxelles, e.x.e.r.c.e de ICI-CCN de Montpellier, CNDC Angers, DAS Theater-Amsterdam, and others.
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