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.
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
With Kimberley Ribeiro and Michel
Capacity limited to 12 participants.
Free participation upon prior registration.
17 July | 16:00 | Centro Cultural do Cartaxo
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