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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

Projecto Espiões

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

Circulação

5 May 2017 — 6 May 2017
Teatro Municipal do Porto - Rivoli / Dias da Dança, Oporto, PT
18 March 2017
Casa da Cultura de Ílhavo, Ílhavo, PT
30 September 2016 — 2 October 2016
Maria Matos Teatro Municipal, Lisbon, PT
17 September 2016
Festival Materiais Diversos 2016, Teatro Virgínia, Torres Novas, PT

Ficha artística

Creation and Artistic Direction Filipa Francisco Co-creation and Performance Francisco Camacho, Miguel Pereira, Sílvia Real Musical Composition António Pedro Scenery and Costumes Carlota Lagido Lighting Design and Technical Direction Carlos Ramos Critical Accompaniment and Documentation Cláudia Galhós Photography Bruno Simão Production and Dissemination Materiais Diversos Co-production Maria Matos Teatro Municipal, Teatro Municipal do Porto and Open Latitudes Network (Latitudes Contemporaines, Vooruit, L’Arsenic, Body/Mind, Teatro delle Moire, Sin Arts Culture, Le Phénix, MIR Festival, Materiais Diversos financed by the European Union Cultural Program) Support EIRA and Pólo Cultural das Gaivotas | Boavista – Câmara Municipal de Lisboa Acknowledgements Culturgest, Gulbenkian, ESD – Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa, Forum Dança, FMH, Daniel Tércio, Sophie Coquelin, Mariana Brandão, Elisabete Paiva, Mark Depputer, Vasco Wallenkamp, Margarida Bettencourt, Olga Roriz

Production and Dissemination

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

Sara Abrantes
sara.abrantes@materiaisdiversos.com
+351 915227787

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