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.
Teatro do Frio is an artistic collective created in 2005 and inserted in the regional context of Northern Portugal. The collective was created with the purpose of privileging research in theatrical creation, with a desire for the crossing of different disciplines. Since 2013, the Teatro do Frio has been investigating thresholds and contact zones between the processes of theatrical creation and sound art, acoustics, dance and compositional writing. In this premise, it has deepened the investment in the creation of shows where performer and word emerge from the systematic investigation around the relationships that can be created between emotion, action, and thoughts. Their dramaturgical / compositional writing comes from a grammar that relates voice, body, space and sound. Since 2016, the collective has been investigating the relationship between dramaturgical writing and landscape, extending this exercise in 2017 to the concept of sonic drama, relating kinesthesia [body language] and toponymy [language of territory].
Teatro do Frio is supported by DGARTES.
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