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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.

2023
2021
2019
2017

We Produce

Over Our Heads

Marta Cerqueira

Professional dancer since 2001. She is dedicated to the research and conception of various artistic creation projects, principally in the area of the performative arts (dance and theatre) and also through installations, video and film. She began her training in classical and modern dance at 10 years old at the Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa, and at 18 finishes the course and receives her diploma as a professional dancer. She chooses contemporary dance as her professional path and continues her studies through several schools and dance studios in New York, Berlin and Lisbon, where she completed the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Choreography Course. PGCCA. She was also a part of the multidisciplinary projects COLINA04(PT), Point to Pointe Program, 4th Asia- Europe Dance Forum/06(PL). Worked as a performer and in some cases as a co-creator with the following choreographers and directors: Anke Blonde, Bruno Pradet, Beatriz Cantinho, Clara Andermatt, Errol White, Giacomo Scalisi, John Mowat, Luís Guerra, Leonor Keil, Manon Oligny, Maria Ramos, Miguel Moreira, Paulo Ribeiro, Peter Michael Dietz, Sofia Neuparth, Tânia Carvalho among others. In film, she participated in films by: Jeanne Waltz, Manuel Guerra, Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra.

Projectos

Over Our Heads

(OOH — extended interjection of astonishment, admiration, enchantment or sadness)

Over Our Heads is an installation that draws attention to choreographic and dynamic aspects. It places the public in a situation, a setting, where the elements in the space make it so that unspoken interferences with the work occur in a welcoming place set to be crossed by the visitor – to exist, to play and to invent, to bring forward all those things that go through our minds.

Play is a way of understanding and discovering the world; one that does not lose its meaning in later life. When we play we allow ourselves to flee from conventional behaviour, we let our guard down and arrive to a place of possibilities and inspiration, of trial and scrutiny, of trust and heeding.

OOH is an installation and the start of a choreography, which is to be built by the public itself out of perceptions, standpoints and likings. It is an invitation to explore both body and space, a place where everyone is a participant and an interpreter. We are choreography and scenography, composition and inventiveness. An ongoing composition-manifesto turning into a fleeting final art, from first to last breath.

 

MICROSITE

Ficha artística

Artistic Conception and Direction Marta Cerqueira Scene Design Henrique Ralheta and Marta Cerqueira Video Bruno Canas Light Design Anatol Waschke Sound Sofia Dias Sound design Tiago Cerqueira Texts Pietro Romani Graphic design Marta Ramos Publicity video Joana Linda Photography Alípio Padilha Production Cóccix - Associação Cultural Co-producers Culturgest, Materiais Diversos and Teatro Louletano Supports Fundação GDA, Bolsa de criação artística da Câmara Municipal de Setúbal and Loulé Criativo Project financed by República Portuguesa - Ministério da Cultura | Direcção Geral das Artes Residences Osso - Associação Cultural , Teatro da Voz, Centro Cultural da Malaposta, Teatro Louletano Acknowledgement Carole Garton, Vânia Doutel Vaz, João Paulo Santos and students of the scenic space discipline at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha

Age Rating

M/6 - children/young people up to the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult during the visit.

Premiere / Dates

3 to 9 November 2022 - Premiere | Culturgest, Lisbon
9 to 11 March 2023 | Casa da Cerca, Almada
24 November 2023 | Rancho Folclórico Headquarters - Som Riscado Festival, Loulé
14 and 15 April 2024 | Convento São Francisco - Festival Abril Dança Coimbra

Duration

approx. 30 min.

Production and Touring

Sofia Matos
sofia.matos@materiaisdiversos.com
+351 913633452

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