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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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ΛƬSUMOЯI

Catarina Miranda

Portugal, 1982

Artist working with languages that intercept image, movement, voice, scenography and light, approaching the body as a vessel for the transformation and mediation of hypnagogic states, as well as for the gestures and procedures of the visceral conscience of the present.

Concluded the Master EXERCE at ICI-CCN Montpellier/FR and the BA in Visual Arts at the Porto’s Fine Arts University/ Pt; studied Noh Theatre at Kyoto Art Center/ Jp.

Among others Miranda has presented the dance pieces ΛƬSUMOЯI, CABRAQIMERA, DREAM IS THE DREAMER, BOCA MURALHA, MAZEZAM and REIPOSTO REIMORTO at Centre Pompidou (Paris/FR), Palais de Tokyo (Paris/FR), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon/PT), Serralves Museum (Porto/PT), National Theatre (Porto, PT), Festival Materiais Diversos (PT), Festival DDD (PT), Festival Pays de Danses (Liège, Be), Festival Mindelact (Cape Verde), Festival Short Theatre (Rome/IT).

Furthermore, Miranda has presented the visual installations POROMECHANICS at Centre Pompidou (Paris/ FR), Festival Walk&Talk (Azores/Pt), São Luiz Theatre Lisbon, as well as, DIAGONALANIMAL at Fabrik Festival (Fall River/ USA) and MOUNTAIN MOUTH at Dance Box and Maizuru RB (Kobe/Maizuru/Jp).

In 2022 she collaborated as Light and Scenography designer for the project VUZA CANONS – Scores for Light and Percussion with Sebastien roux, Ensemble 0 & Drumming GP, presented at Serralves Museum (Porto/Pt) and La Soufflerie in Rezé (Fr).

She is part of the vocal collective COBRACORAL with Clélia Colonna and Ece Canli, having played at CCB/Lisboa, Jardins Efémeros Festival 2022 and Tremor Festival 2023.

In 2016, Portuguese TV released the Documentary “PORTUGAL QUE DANÇA“, one of whose episodes is dedicated to the dance piece Boca Muralha.

She is currently one of the artists of GrandLuxe Network and in 2024 was one of the nominees for Salavisa European Dance Award (SEDA) bestowed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2024.

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ATSUMORI © João Duarte
ATSUMORI © José Caldeira
ATSUMORI © José Caldeira
ATSUMORI © José Caldeira
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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.

Ficha artística

TEAM Artistic Direction, Choreography, Costumes Catarina Miranda Choreographic co-creation Cacá Otto Reuss, Joãozinho da Costa, Lewis Seivwright, Maria Antunes, Mélanie Ferreira Performance Cacá Otto Reuss, Hugo Marmelada, Lewis Seivwright, Maria Antunes, Mélanie Ferreira Light Design Leticia Skrycky & Joana Mário Music Composition Lechuga Zafiro Scenography Conception Catarina Miranda, Joana Mário, João Brojo, Leticia Skrycky Scenography electrification support João Ferreira Dramaturgical Research Support Carlos Mesquita, Ece Canli, Fernando Oliveira, Jonathan Saldanha Executive Production João Brojo PARTNERS Production Diagonal Animal/PT Production & Diffusion Materiais Diversos/PT Co-production Centre Pompidou / Spectacles Vivant (Paris/FR), Charleroi Danse - Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (Bruxelas/BE), One Dance Week Festival (Plovdiv/BG), Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro/PT), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto/PT) e São Luiz Teatro Municipal (Lisboa/PT) Residency Support AGORA (Montpellier/FR), CRL - Central Elétrica (Porto/PT), Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (Caen/FR), Centro Cultural da Malaposta/Minutos Redondos/Câmara Municipal de Odivelas (Odivelas/PT), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo/PT), Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro/PT), Teatro Viriato (Viseu/PT) e Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto/PT) Support Camões Institute of Paris

Age Rating

12+

Premiere / Dates

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

Production and Touring

Sofia Matos (Materiais Diversos) sofia.matos@materiaisdiversos.com

Executive production

Vanda Cerejo (Materiais Diversos), João Brojo

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