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.
She has a degree in Dance, Creation and Interpretation from the Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon and has trained with various teachers and choreographers such as Teresa Ranieri, Madalena Silva, Madalena Victorino, Barbara Griggi, Amélia Bentes, Graça Barroso, Margarida Bettencourt, among others.
She has also attended training courses in the areas of theatre, costume design and show production. In 2009, she took part in a Bolsa Educativa seminar, where she supervised creative dance classes for primary and secondary school classes, with Ana Silva Marques as her pedagogical coordinator.
In 2010 she was a performer in the play “Terra-Chão” by Marta Tomé, in a co-production with Teatro Virgínia. In the same year, she attended an artistic residency at O Espaço do Tempo, in Montomor-o-Novo, under the direction of Rui Horta.
Since 2007, she has been a teaching assistant and dance teacher at the Escola de Dança “O Corpo da Dança” in Torres Novas, and at various schools in the area (Entroncamento, Riachos and Alcanena), in kindergarten, primary and secondary classes. In 2014, she became the artistic and pedagogical director of the Alcanena Dance Studio, where she has worked as a teacher and choreographer. She has collaborated on several choreographic works for the Municipality of Alcanena.
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