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.
Choreography focuses on the relationship between choreography as a non-communicative art medium (which nevertheless expresses) and sign language as a linguistic system based on gestures, the foundation of which is, precisely, to facilitate communication in the social sphere.
Coreografia focuses on this same paradox, attempting to articulate processes of incorporation and appropriation in dance. How are bodily experiences also founders of a way of being in the world, with value and meaning? “How is one — while being and subject — affected and transformed by the practice of certain dances?”; “How different are the dances from the ideology which a dancer sustains with her/his own body, as an aesthetic and social being?”
João dos Santos Martins
Sofia Matos
sofia.matos@materiaisdiversos.com
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