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.
21h30
Talk after the show
M/6
3€
Wearing tight bodysuits, Aloun Marchal and Henrique Furtado measure each other from head to toe, face each other’s gaze, camp out in the center of the stage and shout from the bottom of their guts: the challenge is on. Face to face, in a proximity that is both complicit and provocative, they prepare themselves. They explore a range of sounds and movements with detonating registers, from fighting to the most impertinent children’s games, from borborygms to the sweetest songs, from simple exhalation to bestial screams. Evolutionary mechanisms lead the performers to go further and further in their practices, moving their bodies and manifesting their throats.
The pas de deux slide from regulated violence to the pleasure of sensuality, both of which are based (and this is the most disturbing thing) on listening, imitation and the exchange of movements. To the rhythm of repetitions, the voices and faces, laughing and cruel, entangle, equip and compete.
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