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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 3rd to the 12th of October 2025, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations.

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Piny

Human, intersectional feminist, antiracist, environmentalist, activist. Artist, architect, performer, dancer, educator, choreographer. Born in Lisbon, of Portuguese and Angolan descent.

She completed a degree in Architecture at FAUTL in 2007, followed by a postgraduate degree in Scenography in 2009. In the same year, she completed the “Scenography, Dance, and Architecture” program in Paris at École Nationale d’Architecture and CND. In 2012, she earned a degree in Dance in Lisbon.

As an independent artist, she has created and performed several choreographic works, including Periférico in collaboration with Vhils for BoCA Biennale (2017); HIP. a pussy point of view (2019); .G Rito (2021); and ONYX (2024).

In 2023, she began her work as artistic director and curator of the OU.kupa festival, focused on emerging choreographers in street and clubbing dance, as well as archival collection and construction. She continuously studies Hatha Yoga and Advaita Vedanta and recently completed courses on Immersion in African Philosophies in Dialogue with Contemporary Values with Katiuscia Ribeiro, and Decolonizing Curatorial and Artistic Practices with Kathy-Ann Tan. She continues exploring alternative ways of understanding intersectionality in being and making through astrology, tarot, yoga, and non-Eurocentric philosophies.

Her dance journey began in 1999 with Raqs Sharqi and Raqs Baladi, which she further developed into theoretical research and the practical construction of fusion vocabularies. Since 2006, she has embarked on a path of learning, research, and teaching Afro-North American-origin street and clubbing dances (Breakdance, Hip Hop, House, Vogue, Waacking) in Europe and New York, both in formal and informal contexts. In 2006, she founded the female crew ButterflieSoulFlow, centered on dance, DJing, and graffiti. In 2012, she founded the collective Orchidaceae; in 2019, the Vogue PT chapter; and since 2025, she has been part of the House of Revlon.

Since 2012, she has focused on researching the fusion and intersection of these dance languages to create new vocabularies and deepen understanding of their political and social contexts. She has been teaching in Portugal since 2006 and internationally since 2014.

As a performer, she has collaborated with Kwenda Lima, Alice Joana Gonçalves, Filipa Francisco, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes, Ricardo Ambrózio, Tânia Carvalho, Raquel Castro, Boris Charmatz, Cristina Planas Leitão, and Marco da Silva Ferreira.

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Absolute Premiere: April 11-12, 2026 — DDD – Festival Dias da Dança (PT)

 

 

It is a performance, which is also a lecture, and at the same time something else that is neither of the two.

I seek new ways to present and share a process that has been and continues to be the streets, that has been and continues to be clubbing, that has been and continues to be intimate, that has been and continues to be crooked. A process that doesn’t fit neatly into any format, which is why I search for it. It is a practical, lived investigation. Being present in places and spaces, being part of them, not taking away, but being.

I tell stories, share personal archives and others collected over many years. I question performance, I question academia, I question the body, and I weave together plants, the city, and the social processes of destruction and construction of cultures and bodies. Always in the plural. Literally, it means being crossed (atravessada) by something, by many things. To be intersected. To be mischievous, to unsettle. To serve myself on a platter. To be a street crossing between two larger streets. To be a crossing.

Overlays of memories and volcanoes.
Street culture and entangled nature.
Clubbing spaces for a single body.
Crowded imagery for a lonely space. Tissue, from Fascia to Cosmos.
Oracles for never-ending parties.

To (dis)solve the world into full nothingness

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Concept, Performance, Text: Piny Sound designer: Leo Soulflow Video Editing: Pedro Jafuno Graphic Design: Bruna Borges Video archives: Piny’s personal archive and the OU.kupa festival archive Light Design: Cárin Geada Research and rehearsal support: Rebecca Mateus Outside eye: Teresa Coutinho, Melissa Rodrigues, André Cabral (additional people to be added) Production & Distribution — Accompanied Artist by Materiais Diversos, 2026–2028 Co-production: DDD - Festival Dias da Dança (PT); Charleroi Danse - Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE); TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto (PT) Co-production in residency: Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (FR) - em parceria com CAMPUS PCS (PT); O Espaço do Tempo (PT), within the framework of the Associated Artist programme Residency Support: Alkantara (PT); A QUINTA, Sandim (PT)
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