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.
Lewis Gillon Seivwright is from Aberdeen, Scotland (1993). BA degree from the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance (London, 2013). Danced at Tanzmainz, Germany (2013 – 2016). Since 2016, he has been working with Club Guy and Roni (Netherlands), in the productions “Mechanical Exctase”, “Confernece of the Birds” and “Tetris Mon Amor”. Still in Holland, he collaborated with the director Lilianne Brakema in the process of ‘Er Zal lemand Komen’. At the same time, he collaborates, so far with Jonas & Lander (Portugal) in ‘Adorabilis’ and ‘Lento and Largo’.
He also collaborates with Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz in the performance “Dispositivos” (2020) and with Catarina Miranda in the project Cabra Qimera, to debut in 2021.
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