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.
(1999) Torres Novas, works as a performer and artist since 2017. Graduated in Dance from the Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa (2020), complements her training at PACAP 5 of Fórum Dança, with João Fiadeiro, Márcia Lance, Carolina Campos and Daniel Pizamiglio, and in several dance and choreography laboratories in Lisbon with Vera Mantero, Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, Francisco Camacho, as well as in the PARTS Summer School, with Douglas Becker, Dominique Duszynski, Cassiel Gaube, Igor Shysko, Stéphane Bourhis. She trained in clown technique for several years, and was part of the “TER”-Teatro Experimental de Riachos, and the “Ultimato”-Grupo de Teatro da Universidade de Lisboa, in which she also directed movement. He highlights his work as a performer in plays by Joan Jonas, John Romão and Silvia Costa, Amélia Bentes and Henrique Furtado Vieira, and his participation in festivals such as Citemor, Festival DDD and Serralves em Festa. Espaço do Tempo and Rua das Gaivotas6 with the piece “velã” by Leonor Lopes. Interpreted and co-created the pieces: “Dream that cannot be broken and cannot be broken and not if…”, by A.ves (2020) and “À Sombra de mais cabels, by Leonor Mendes and Susana Gaspar ( 2021).” With João dos Santos Martins, Ana Bigotte Vieira and Carlos Manuel Oliveira, she assisted in the curatorship and investigation of the exhibition “Para uma timeline a haver”, currently shown in Serralves, Porto.
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