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.
We started by looking at the concept of the body without organs, introduced by Artaud, to question our own relationship with the body that we present in a performative context. We are interested in the search for the reconfiguration of a body to discover a new one, namely through movement and sculpture. We look for ways to change the shape of the body, making it unfit to function, and understand how it can, resolves and creates “solutions” of movement within its impossibilities. What deforms a body? We are interested in investigating the body-object relationship and understanding the influence and weight of some of the things we carry with us, material or immaterial, and that can affect/shape our bodies, inside and out. To better understand this relationship, we would like to work in collaboration with the community of the places we visit, and invite them to a space for sharing and research. We want to understand each one’s personal relationships with specific objects and invite them to share these objects with us in a sharing laboratory/practice.