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.
The project intends to put into dialogue two parallel and interdependent proposals: the first, CABRAQIMERA, a choreographic score for a skating quartet, a dance piece about states of detonation; countered by POROMECHANIC, a series of video-portraits of choreographers, which are filmed, moments after being subjected to immersion states.
Dance piece for a quartet on roller skates, which addresses a contemporaneity that is both physical and technological, where a system of spatial organization, based on speed sports, establishes a set of codes of occupation, interceptions and encounters.
The plastic and hypnotic dimension of the gesture is evidenced by a lighting system that reveals negative and positive spaces, projecting the body to an extreme otherness and opening the ground for fiction.
POROMECHANICS is a collection of video-portraits of choreographers, presented as oracles, in dialogue with a suspended sculpture of a double-headed whale, in a sleeping position.
The initiative to portray different artists, moments after being induced to states of immersion, through physical and sound activation, enhances the idea of access to their black boxes, promoting the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system and the appearance of subconscious speech.
The possibility of hallucination and hypnagogia, aims to return the oracular perspective to each body, through the manifestation of their gestures captured on camera, as “soothsayers” – those who tell the truth.
Creation, Artistic Direction — Catarina Miranda
POROMECHANIC
Portrayed Choreographers - Ana Isabel Castro, Ana Rita Teodoro, António Pedro Lopes, Cristina Planas Leitão, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Laura Kirshenbaum
Vocalists’ team COBRA’CORAL (immersive sessions) - Catarina Miranda, Clélia Colonna, Ece Canli
Music - Lechuga Zaphiro
Post-production - Catarina Miranda, João Parra, Jonathan Saldanha
Colouring - Mark Gomez
CABRAQIMERA
Interpretation - Duarte Valadares, Francisca Pinto, Lewis Seivwright, Madalena Pereira
Light Design - Letícia Skrycky
Sound Composition - Lechuga Zaphiro
Styling - Simão Bolívar
Production of costumes - Iraíde Silva e Suzana Silva
Dramaturgical support - Cristina Planas Leitão (TMP), Jonathan Saldanha
PRODUCTION & TOURING — Sara Abrantes, Sofia Matos, Joana Silva / Materiais Diversos
Executive Production — Vanda Cerejo
COPRODUCTION — Materiais Diversos (Lisbon / Portugal), SOOPA (Porto / Portugal); TMP (Porto / Portugal); CND Centre Nacional de la Danse (Paris, France), ICI-CCN Montpellier – Occitanie (as part of Life Long Burning project supported by the European commission — Montpellier / France);
Project supported by 5Sentidos Cultural Network
(Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Cine-Teatro Louletano, Teatro Micaelense, Teatro Municipal do Porto, São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Teatro Nacional São João, Teatro Viriato), under the program Invitation to Artistic Creation.
CREATION RESIDENCES — CND Centre Nacional de la Danse (Paris / France) TMP (Porto / Portugal); Walk & Talk Festival (Azores/ Portugal); ICI-CCN Montpellier – Occitanie (as part of Life Long Burning project supported by the European commission — Montpellier / France), Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Teatro Viriato, Cine-Teatro Louletano, Teatro Nacional São João.
28th April 2021 - Premiere | Festival Dias da Dança, Teatro Rivoli, Porto
30th April 2021 | Abril Dança Festival, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra
22nd May 2021 | Teatro Viriato, Viseu
4th February 2022 | Teatro Municipal da Guarda
11 February 2022 | Guidance, fábrica ASA, Guimarães
18th February 2022 | Teatro Louletano - Loulé
18th March 2022 | Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
27th May 2022 | Dance Week Festival, Plovdiv - Bulgária
16th July 2022 | Walk&Talk Festival, São Miguel, Açores
20th July 2022 | Bolzano Dance Festival, Italy
29th October 2022 | São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisboa
27th January 2023 | Norrlandsoperan, Umea, Sweden
16th June 2023 | Theatro Circo, Braga, Portugal
17th February 2024 | Casa da Cultura de Ílhavo, Ílhavo, Portugal
21th March 2024 | Spring Forward Festival, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany
Sofia Matos
sofia.matos@materiaisdiversos.com
+351 913633452
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