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.
Maud Blandel (1986), contemporary dancer, earned her Master Degree at La Manufacture, Lausanne and went on to study at HEAD (Haute École d’Art et de Design), in Geneva. Between 2013 and 2017, she collaborated closely with the director Karim Bel Kacem on transdisciplinary creations for the Think Tank Théâtre (Blasted, Gulliver, Mesure pour mesure, 23 rue Couperin – point de vue de un pombo sur l’architecture).
In 2015, she created I L K A, a structure for reflection and creation of choreographic practices where she developed the pieces TOUCH DOWN (2016) and Lignes de conduite (2018).
She collaborated with Rachid Ouramdane during the creation of Murmuration for the Ballet de Loraine in 2016 and, more recently, worked with the German composer and director Heiner Goebbels on her latest production Everything that happened and would happen, during the Manchester International Festival. Because of her interest in the exploration of choreography, she participates in various laboratories with the students from the École Nationale Supérieure de fotografie de Arles, and with Contrechamps – the Geneva Contemporary Music Ensemble, in order to rethink choreographic practices through the eyes of different artistic fields. Maud Blandel is a resident artist at Arsenic – Contemporary Art Centre in Lausanne since September, 2018.
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