Festival

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.

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Novos Materiais

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Leonor Mendes

(1999) Torres Novas, works as a performer and artist since 2017. Graduated in Dance from the Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa (2020), complements her training at PACAP 5 of Fórum Dança, with João Fiadeiro, Márcia Lance, Carolina Campos and Daniel Pizamiglio, and in several dance and choreography laboratories in Lisbon with Vera Mantero, Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, Francisco Camacho, as well as in the PARTS Summer School, with Douglas Becker, Dominique Duszynski, Cassiel Gaube, Igor Shysko, Stéphane Bourhis. She trained in clown technique for several years, and was part of the “TER”-Teatro Experimental de Riachos, and the “Ultimato”-Grupo de Teatro da Universidade de Lisboa, in which she also directed movement. He highlights his work as a performer in plays by Joan Jonas, John Romão and Silvia Costa, Amélia Bentes and Henrique Furtado Vieira, and his participation in festivals such as Citemor, Festival DDD and Serralves em Festa. Espaço do Tempo and Rua das Gaivotas6 with the piece “velã” by Leonor Lopes. Interpreted and co-created the pieces: “Dream that cannot be broken and cannot be broken and not if…”, by A.ves (2020) and “À Sombra de mais cabels, by Leonor Mendes and Susana Gaspar ( 2021).” With João dos Santos Martins, Ana Bigotte Vieira and Carlos Manuel Oliveira, she assisted in the curatorship and investigation of the exhibition “Para uma timeline a haver”, currently shown in Serralves, Porto.

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Sérgio Diogo Matias

(1985, Lisbon) began his studies in the visual arts and in 2008 and 2010 he enrolled in the Interpretation/Creation degree at Escola Superior de Dança – Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. In the last year of the degree, he attends ArteZ Hogeeschool, in Arnhem, with an Erasmus scholarship and in 2013/2014 he is a student of the Forum Dança, PEPCC course. As a performer, he highlights collaborations with Amélia Bentes, Miguel Pereira and Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte. In 2014, he co-created Pastiche, a project financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s scholarship program to support creation in dance. In April 2017 he is a performer in the creation “EQUANIMIDADE” by Vânia Rovisco, within the scope of the Walk & Talk Festival. Also highlights his work MASS| MESS, which premiered at the Paralelo Festival, Azores. In the context of the Cartografias Festival, curated by Ezequiel Santos, he presents his solo Insólido, which began during the course of Forum Dança, PEPCC. In 2018, he continues his work as a performer, namely with Tânia Carvalho in the replacement of the piece Ichosaedron for the cycle celebrating 20 years of the choreographer’s career, as well as for Clara Andermatt in the project “Lisbon under stars”, an invitation from OCUBO, a video mapping project. Also in 2018, he presents MASS | MESS in Lisbon, at Rua das Gaivotas 6 and the play Insólido at Curtas de Dança do A22, in the context of the DDD festival, Porto. At the end of 2018, he is interpreter and co-creator of the play “Mnésimo”, by Amélia Bentes, which premiered at Musiberia, Serpa. He is co-creator of GEMINIS with António Torres, a project financed by the Support for Theater and Dance Shows program by the GDA foundation, as well as with his project “Loop” also supported by the GDA foundation. Both premiered in 2019. In 2020, he revisits the origins of his work Insólido, looking for a new approach to this same concept, which premiered at the Cumplicidades Festival on October 3, 2020. During the 2020 and 2021 academic year, he is a student of the course of Composition and Musical Performance by Restart, which culminates in the presentation of a final show with four themes, with lyrics written by him, musical direction and production by Nuno Pires and stage direction by Joana França. In 2021 he is a performer in the play DIÁLOGOS by Henrique Furtado, as well as an artist invited by Vânia Rovisco for the laboratory “Focus on the small”, within the scope of the project The_Plot, AADK_ Portugal. In 2022, he performs in the opera Orphée, with choreography by Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz and staging by Filipe Hirsch, debuting at the CCB.

Projectos

© Sérgio Diogo Matias

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.

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