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.
Projecto Espiões addresses the relationship between the performative arts and the building and transmission of cultural memory, from the point of view of a personal universe. From the individual and collective memories of some of the artists in her life — the choreographer-performers Francisco Camacho, Miguel Pereira and Sílvia Real — Filipa Francisco identifies an uneven heritage in their memories, and draws a creative and affirmative gesture faced with a lack of archives and documentation on dance in the national Portuguese panorama.
As a follow-up to previous projects such as Íman, built on the individual memories of African and Hip Hop dance performers, and A Viagem, which explores traditional dance as a form of connection with the body, Projecto Espiões aims to validate a heritage which is incorporated through a confrontation between personal repertoires and imaginaries, and new choreographic gestures.
PREMIERE
17 September 2016
Materiais Diversos Festival 2016, Teatro Virgínia, Torres Novas, PT
Sofia Matos
sofia.matos@materiaisdiversos.com
+ 351 913633452
Sara Abrantes
sara.abrantes@materiaisdiversos.com
+351 915227787
Diversos