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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.

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Co-Productions

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Ana Rita Teodoro

Master Degree in “Dance, Creation and Performance” from CNDC in Angers and the University of Paris 8 (2011/2013), developed as her research the creation of an “Anatomia Delirante”. In 2002 she studied in the Curso de Pesquisa e Criação Coreográfica at Fórum Dança and in 2015 in the Corografia Course at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She has participated in the research at c.e.m. exploring experiential anatomy, philosophy and multidisciplinary interconnectedness, with Sofia Neuparth, among others. In 2007/2010 she took the Curso de Instrutores de Chi Kung, at the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Lisbon.
Tatsumi Hijikata´s Butoh has been one of her areas of artistic investment. Since 2007 she has participated in various workshops led by artists such as: Tadashi Endo, Sankai Juko, Torifune, Akira Kasai, Min Tanaka, Yoshito Ohno, Patrick De Vos and Christine Greiner. In 2015 she received the Aperfeiçoamento Artístico Grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to study with Yoshito Ohno in Japan and, in 2016, she developed research around the practice of Butoh with the support of the Centre National de la Danse, CND (Pantin), Aide à la recherche et au patrimoine en danse.
Since 2009, Ana Rita Teodoro has choreographed the following solos – MelTe (2009), Curva (2010), and ASSOMBRO (2014-15) and the pieces that make up the collection Delirar a Anatomia: Orifice Paradise (2012), Sonho d’Intestino (2013), Palco e Pavilhão (2017). Her work has been shown in Austria, Germany, France and Portugal.

Projectos

The new creation by artist Ana Rita Teodoro explores the aesthetics of “fofo” (cute in English, Kawaï in Japanese, mi-mi in French), in all its social and political implications. It is a choreographed piece which seeks to expose the “fofo” as an appeasing tool of critical thinking (capitalism, consumerism), while at the same time, revealing it as a possible emancipatory aesthetic within the panorama of contemporary dance, in which minimalism, slow strength, non-aggression and pleasure stand in the face of speed, aggression and the hardness of today.

The “fofo” has been investigated and analysed by different art history, sociology and philosophy theoreticians in recent years, and forms an important pilar in the development of consumerist societies and in the manipulation of the masses – Japan being an example.
Observing how it is present in different domains (art, literature, and in the world of commodities) allows us to understand, on a large scale, the inherent power of the “aesthetics of those without power” (powerlessness), as defined by Sianne Ngai. ´It is precisely in her research around the aesthetics of “cute” – The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde -, that it becomes evident that it can no longer be marginalized within the art world.

During the period of creation, two research workshops with adolescents took place at the Cartaxo Cultural Centre and the Secondary School of Alcanena, centred on improvisation and Butoh dance practices.

Cronologia

5 October 2019
Festival Materiais Diversos, Cartaxo, PT
4 April 2019 — 6 April 2019
CND Pantain, Paris, FR

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Choreographic Concept Ana Rita Teodoro In Collaboration with the dancers Marcela Santander Corvalàn, João Dos Santos Martins, Katerina Andreou, Kazuki Fujita Co-production and Artistic Residency Centre National pour la Danse, Paris Scenography Sallahdyn Khatir Lighting Design Eduardo Abdala Executive Production Associação Parasita/Sinara Suzin Delegated Production HEI Co-production Centre National de la Danse, Paris, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen, Normandy, Materiais Diversos, GDA Foundation, Portugal Support Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès/New Settings program, Associação Luzlinar – Feital, Circular Festival de Artes Performativas – Vila do Conde, Alkantara, Lisbon
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