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.
Karl Saks is a freelancer choreographer, dancer and sound designer from Estonia, Tartu. He graduated Tartu University Viljandi Culture Academy, Performing Arts Department in 2009 and Estonia Art Academy, New Media Department (MA) in 2017.
He has created three solo performances and has taken part in collaborations as sound designer in the context of theatre, movie and gallery art, as dramaturg, as performer, as directors’ assistant and as co-director.
He is part of a musical collective Cubus Larvik that has contributed three releases since 2005. Cubus Larvik works on their exploration of dark electronica, also incorporating non-musical areas and encrypted occult messages from the worldwide cinematic archive. Cubus Larvik navigates in-between the music and art scene.
He works also as part time teacher and is giving workshops of partner work, floor technique and improvisation in Estonia and abroad.
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