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.
No corpo: assim se conhece o mundo is a project in which Vânia Rovisco looks for what can be read between bodies, between the energies they transmit to each other, between the lines of words that are thrown around in the public square and hidden in the family.
It’s by travelling that you get to know the world. It’s by asking questions that we learn what most afflicts, moves, agitates and consoles us. What concerns each generation at this time? How do we tread the ground, how do we inhabit each place, how do we move between tasks, between senses and between objectives at the age of 5, 47, 64 or 23?
Based on her sensory and movement practices and techniques, Vânia Rovisco intends to initiate the creation of a monologue of her body through a collaborative process of construction and training with a group of different generations.
Concept, Interpretation: Vânia Rovisco
Dramaturgical accompaniment, Text: Patrícia Portela
Interpretation: Márcio Kerber Canabarro; Luís Meneses
Set and costumes: Janis Dellarte; Kenny Mendes (textiles and wood)
Video: Rita Karayianni
Lighting: Vânia Rovisco; Daniel Worm
Sound: Marcus Rovisco; Baltazar Moreira
Guests for the process: Meg Stuart; Maria João Garcia
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