BANANADA: OPERANTÍPODA (Part I) — Marcelo Evelin
Marcelo Evelin will be in residence in Caen and Faro in April, and will hold an open rehearsal on the 17th at 7pm in Caen.
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.
Bombazine em Agosto (Bombazine in August) is an object of artistic research into the cycle Verdade e/ou Consequência (Truth and/or Consequence) – a device indicated as a map-relationship for creating scenes – and the exercise of being a performer. It questions Why curves, counter-curves, crooked lines and angles can we draw tangents between unreality and reality, in the form of a documentary novel.
Creation Francisca Poças
Interpretation and Co-creation Laura Candeias, Miguel Querido
Interpretation and Musical Direction (To be confirmed)
Set and Costume Design (To be determined)
Light Design (To be determined)
Photography and Video Recording (To be determined)
Communication graphics Beatriz Costa
Executive Production (To be appointed)
Support AORCA- Associação de Observação, Regeneração e Criação na Atualidade; Tanz Station-
-Barmer Bahnhof; TE-ATO Grupo Teatro de Leiria
Acknowledgements Jany Kernche, Andreas Kling