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.
‘A Very Eye’ is a collective piece for 5 performers, premiered in October 2022 in Brussels (Les Brigittines). After a period of research, we will start the creation process during this residency, in collaboration with the ballerina Christine Daigle.
For this new creation, we wish to build on the choreographic work developed throughout the creation of our first project The Gyre ; a duet conceived as a gradual and meticulous unfolding, departing from one clear restriction (orbiting around a fixed point in space) and sustained by a proper and complementary language between the performers. Unlike the single system developed in The Gyre, with this project we are curious to link different compositional logics and to interlace them within a more complex and polymorphic structure, while adding a certain degree of unpredictability.
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