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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12 July 2021 – 17 July 2021
Centro Cultural do Cartaxo

O lugar do canto está vazio

Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz

Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz are a pair of choreographers and dancers who collaborates since 2006 in the research and creation of various performances presented in more than 17 countries. Since the beginning of their collaboration, they have had the support of several Portuguese cultural structures, of which stand out the Bomba Suicida (2006-2009), O Espaço do Tempo (associated artists 2009-2016) and Materiais Diversos (associated artists 2012-2016). They have had the support of some European networks, such as Looping, TRANSFER, Open Latitudes, Modul Dance, ONDA and Départs.
His show “Um gesto que não passa de uma ameaça” from 2011 was awarded the European prize for emerging Choreography – Jardin d’Europe and won the first place at Aerowaves Spring Forward, 2013.
As a duo they collaborated with several artists such as Catarina Dias, Lara Torres, Marco Martins, Clara Andermatt, Mark Tompkins and since 2014 they present António and Cleópatra by Tiago Rodrigues and Sopro (2017) by the same director.
They regularly teach classes and workshops and organize residencies and reflection meetings between artists in different contexts. They were the curators of the second edition of PACAP – Advanced Program of Creation in Performing Arts, Forum Dança (2018/2019).

Companhia Maior

COMPANHIA MAIOR é composta por artistas com maioritariamente mais de 60 anos de idade, vindos de diversos quadrantes da atividade artística e cultural. Foi criada em 2010, por iniciativa de Luísa Taveira, com a missão de promover a criatividade na idade maior. A companhia tem trabalhado com várias gerações de criadores no contexto interdisciplinar da criação contemporânea.

Imagem: Bruno Simão

This piece arises from the confrontation of the research tools and choreographic composition of Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz with the bodies and sensibilities of (o) s artists from Companhia Maior. A play that begins with an appeal to experimentation, which is nothing more than an attempt to encounter what we have not mastered or that we have placed ourselves in a zone of conflict, risk and even bankruptcy. It seems to us that it is in this place, between what is mastered and what is unknown, that the body acquires a quality of the present – a transparency that allows us to see its way of acting and thinking. O lugar do canto está vazio is a game of alternations between the abstract and the figurative, the recognizable and the strange, the individual and the collective, the biographical and the fictional. One of compositions, sound scores, gestures that are linked with words, brief narratives interrupted by movements and objects that give rise to voices.

 

13 July | 10h00 — 11h30 | Biblioteca Municipal Marcelino Mesquita | Cartaxo

De Corpo Inteiro – Dance workshop

With Kimberley Ribeiro and Michel

Capacity limited to 12 participants.
Free participation upon prior registration.

 

17 July | 16:00 | Centro Cultural do Cartaxo

Rehearsal & open public conversation

M/12 ∙ 70min.

Free admission ∙ Limited capacity
Subject to ticket collection at Centro Cultural do Cartaxo
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday l 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Contacts
Centro Cultural Município do Cartaxo
Rua 5 de Outubro, 2070-059 Cartaxo
Tel. 243 701 600
ccultural@cm-cartaxo.pt

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