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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.

2023
2021
2019
2017

Artistic Residencies
6 May 2019 – 17 May 2019
Estúdios Victor Córdon

Mistério da Cultura

David Marques

David began to develop his work as a choregrapher in 2007 with the support of EIRA in Lisbon. Since then, he has shown his pieces in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, the Ukraine and Israel. He created ‘Motor de Busca’, ‘Future Plans’, ‘KIN’ and ‘Conquest’, a choreographed adaptation of a Deborah Hay solo, commissioned by the Serralves Foundation. He dcreated the trilogy ‘Bête de Scène’/’Images de Bêtes’/’THE POWERS THAT B’ with Ido Feder. With Tiago Cadete, he created ‘Apagão’, a piece in the dark (Festival Temps D’images and Citemor). As highlights of his work as performer he lists his work with Francisco Camacho, Filipa Francisco, Tiago Guedes (‘Materiais Diversos’), Lígia Teixeira, Maya Levy&Anando Mars, Bosmat Nossan, Loic Touzé, David Wampach, Lucie Tumova, Raquel Castro and Emily Wardill. He has directed choreography composition ateliers at Fórum Dança in Lisboa, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, as part of the project Dance Research (SIDance) in Seul and at Danslab in Brussels. He founded PARCA.

Projectos

Diogo Brito

Mistério da Cultura is a patchwork show. It is a rigorous and ironic puzzle, in which activities of different natures follow each other, as solos, as duets, or in a group, and can be seen and heard by the public from different points of view. It is a night of insomnia, a thriller, a cultural radio program in which one tries to figure out what is the mystery, where it is, how we can access it, or if it worth it to even try to solve it.

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By David Marques In Collaboration with Madeleine Fournier, Johann Nöhles, Nuno Pinheiro, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Francisco Rolo, Teresa Silva Video Diogo Brito Costumes Tiago Loureiro Lighting Design Tiago Cadete Sound Design Miguel Lucas Mendes Space Tiago Pinhal Costa Residencies 23 Milhas - Ílhavo, Estúdios Victor Córdon (CNB)/ Materiais Diversos, Teatro Municipal do Porto, EIRA/Teatro da Voz Executive Production Vítor Alves Brotas Production PARCA Co-production Teatro do Bairro Alto, Materiais Diversos
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