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.
Teresa Silva (Lisbon, 1988) attended the Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, the Escola Superior de Dança (Bachelor Degree in Dance) and the PEPCC – Programa de Estudo, Pesquisa e Criação Coreográfica, administered by Forum Dança. She was trained by Deborah Hay, Meg Stuart, Vera Mantero, Loïc Touzé, Francisco Camacho, Jeremy Nelson, João Fiadeiro, Julien Hamilton, Miguel Pereira, Clara Andermatt, Emmanuelle Huynh, Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Patrícia Portela and João Tabarra among others.
She participated, as a grant recipient of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in the DanceWeb Scholarship Programme 2011 at the Festival Impulstanz Vienna.
As a performer, she highlights her work with Marco d’Agostin in Avalanche, Loïc Touzé in Forme Simple, Fanfare and Ô Montagne, Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard in For Claude Shannon, David Marques in Ressaca, Rita Natálio in Museu Encantador, Tiago Guedes in Hoje, Luís Guerra in Nevoeiro, Tânia Carvalho in Icosahedron, Ana Borralho & João Galante in World of Interiors, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz in O mesmo mas ligeiramente diferente, Mariana Tengner Barros in Peça do Coração, Luiz Antunes and Sérgio Diogo Matias in Pastiche (replacement) and Maria Ramos in Nerves Like Nylon (replacement), among others.
Since 2008, she has been developing her own work as a creator, with highlights including the solo Ocooo, with the artistic accompaniment of Loïc Touzé; A vida enorme/La vie en or co-created with Maria Lemos; Leva a mão que eu levo o braço and Um Espanto não se Espera, both created in collaboration with Elizabete Francisca (both winners of the Contest Jovens Criadores); and the adaptation of the solo Conquest by Deborah Hay, as part of the program Improvisações/Colaborações, comissioned by the Serralves Foundation; and the co-creations with Filipe Pereira, Letting Nature take over us again, O que fica do que passa and Nova Criação.
Since 2012, she has been teaching at Forum Dança, for the PEPCC training, and lecturing workshops on her own creations. More recently, she has collaborated with other artists on projects connected to pedagogy within the context of contemporary dance and performative arts.
Between 2011 and 2014, she was an associate artist with Materiais Diversos and in 2017 she was an associate artist with O Espaço do Tempo.
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