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.
(1985, Lisbon) began his studies in the visual arts and in 2008 and 2010 he enrolled in the Interpretation/Creation degree at Escola Superior de Dança – Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. In the last year of the degree, he attends ArteZ Hogeeschool, in Arnhem, with an Erasmus scholarship and in 2013/2014 he is a student of the Forum Dança, PEPCC course. As a performer, he highlights collaborations with Amélia Bentes, Miguel Pereira and Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte. In 2014, he co-created Pastiche, a project financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s scholarship program to support creation in dance. In April 2017 he is a performer in the creation “EQUANIMIDADE” by Vânia Rovisco, within the scope of the Walk & Talk Festival. Also highlights his work MASS| MESS, which premiered at the Paralelo Festival, Azores. In the context of the Cartografias Festival, curated by Ezequiel Santos, he presents his solo Insólido, which began during the course of Forum Dança, PEPCC. In 2018, he continues his work as a performer, namely with Tânia Carvalho in the replacement of the piece Ichosaedron for the cycle celebrating 20 years of the choreographer’s career, as well as for Clara Andermatt in the project “Lisbon under stars”, an invitation from OCUBO, a video mapping project. Also in 2018, he presents MASS | MESS in Lisbon, at Rua das Gaivotas 6 and the play Insólido at Curtas de Dança do A22, in the context of the DDD festival, Porto. At the end of 2018, he is interpreter and co-creator of the play “Mnésimo”, by Amélia Bentes, which premiered at Musiberia, Serpa. He is co-creator of GEMINIS with António Torres, a project financed by the Support for Theater and Dance Shows program by the GDA foundation, as well as with his project “Loop” also supported by the GDA foundation. Both premiered in 2019. In 2020, he revisits the origins of his work Insólido, looking for a new approach to this same concept, which premiered at the Cumplicidades Festival on October 3, 2020. During the 2020 and 2021 academic year, he is a student of the course of Composition and Musical Performance by Restart, which culminates in the presentation of a final show with four themes, with lyrics written by him, musical direction and production by Nuno Pires and stage direction by Joana França. In 2021 he is a performer in the play DIÁLOGOS by Henrique Furtado, as well as an artist invited by Vânia Rovisco for the laboratory “Focus on the small”, within the scope of the project The_Plot, AADK_ Portugal. In 2022, he performs in the opera Orphée, with choreography by Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz and staging by Filipe Hirsch, debuting at the CCB.
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