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.
“Ela deu-me eu dela recebi” centres on five generations of women in Clara Amaral’s family and focuses on her grandmother, Maria Joana Cruz dos Santos, who couldn’t read or write. What could be understood as a detail in a family, turns out to be a socio-cultural context that many women in Portugal had to face until the reform of the education system in 1950, which changed the situation of exclusion of women due to their gender and social status.
There’s a book on the table. In a series of movements, Clara Amaral navigates the book and a series of relatives, creating a narrative that multiplies as she goes along.
“Ela deu-me eu dela recebi” is part of the recreation and rewriting in Portuguese of the performance “She gave it to me, I got it from her”, which premiered at the Alkantara Festival in 2021.
She gave me and I received from her
a poem choreographed by her hands and her voice
her voice reading aloud
the book
turned into a guide
turned into a performance
turned into an archive
the permanence of her voice in the book
in the book
the presence and absence of their names
Ela deu-me eu dela recebi
is a book and a choreography, read aloud and handled by an interpreter, for 6 people.
June 29 2024 - Pre-Premiere | Junta de Freguesia de Minde
16 to 20 October 2024 - Biblioteca Camões as part of the programme of TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon
25 and 26 October 2024 - A Moagem, Fundão
26 and 27 November 2024, one session per day for schools - São Miguel, Azores
28 and 29 November 2024, two sessions per day / 17h and 18h30 - Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional of Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores
12 and 13 April 2025, three sessions per day / 12h, 15h, 17h - Ponto C, Penafiel
Sofia Matos
sofia.matos@materiaisdiversos.com
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Diversos