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.
ΛƬSUMOЯI draws from the Japanese noh theater play Atsumori, written by Zeami Motokiyo in the 15th century, to create a stage dance piece anchored in movement, light, and sound, where spectres and memories, past and present, ancestral techniques and futuristic languages intersect.
Catarina Miranda took this play to develop her own narrative around an apotropaic phantasmagoric dance, addressing relationships with evil, the unknown, the invisible. The quintet of dancers uses claps, whistles, sparks, whispers, and vocal calls while exploring the territory through an interstitial and rhythmic choreography, in a play of specters, shadows, and metamorphoses. There are echoes and traces of the gestures of ancestral and contemporary social dances, here twisted and reconfigured, as if bodies and time were unfoldable, dismemberable, transitional.
Catarina Miranda builds, with Letícia Sckrycky and Joana Mário, a living scenic space, with luminous floor and ceiling, amplified by the original sound composition of Lechuga Zaphiro. The set design plays an active role in this play of spectres, revealing the bodies that dissolve, that transform, that seek to emerge and coexist.
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27th April 2024 - Estreia | Festival Abril Dança Coimbra, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra, PT
30th April - 1st May de 2024 | Festival Dias Da Dança, Teatro Campo Alegre, Porto, PT
17th - 18th May 2024 | Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
31th May 2024 | One Dance Festival, Plovdiv, BG
8th June 2024 | Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro, PT
10th - 11th January 2025 | São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisbon, PT
11 July 2025 | Julidans, Amesterdam, NL
Sofia Matos (Materiais Diversos) sofia.matos@materiaisdiversos.com
Vanda Cerejo (Materiais Diversos), João Brojo
Diversos