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.
Sofia Dinger completed her master’s degree in theater at the Das Arts school in Amsterdam. She has invested in additional training with people like Rogério de Carvalho, João Fiadeiro, Carlota Lagido, Ângela Schanelec, Olga Mesa, Beatriz Batarda, Vera Mantero, Miguel Loureiro, Thomas Richards, Jonathan Burrows, Kassys. Sofia created and interpreted “A Song to hear you come” (Maria Matos Teatro Municipal, Festival Alkantara, 2018), “The story of a love” (project Traça / Alkantara, 2017), “Grande Ilusão” (Temps d’Images , 2014 and Plataforma das Artes Performativas, 2015), “Nothing’s ever yours to keep” (Maria Matos Teatro Municipal, 2011) and “Noites Brancas” (in partnership with Paula Diogo and Mónica Calle for the Festival de Almada, 2013). As an interpreter he worked with Mónica Calle, Blitz Theater Group, Sara Carinhas, Rui Catalão, Teatro do Vestido, Francisco Salgado, Tiago Vieira, David Pereira Bastos, Gonçalo Amorim. In cinema, he met with directors such as Leonardo Mouramateus, André Lage, Paulo Menezes and Pedro Filipe Marques. She received the Bernardo Santareno Prize, in the category of revelation actress (2011) and an honorable mention for the performance in the short film Lullaby (André Lage), in the 16th edition of the Luso Brasileiro Film Festival of Santa Maria da Feira. The show “A grande illusão” was highlighted as one of the best in 2014 by critic João Carneiro in Jornal Expresso. In 2013, she joined the Try Angle laboratory in Montemor-o-Novo (at the invitation of Tiago Rodrigues) and in 2015, she joined the 1Space project (at the invitation of Thomas Walgrave) between Portugal, Congo, Palestine and South Africa. A version of her latest solo “A Song to Hear You Come” was performed at the Under Construction festival in Ghent.
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