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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

Co-Productions
22 April 2019 – 20 October 2019

Para uma Timeline a Haver

Ana Bigotte Vieira

Has a Bachelor Degree in Modern and Contemporary (ISCTE), specialized in Contemporary Culture and Philosophy (FCSH-UNL), and in Theatre Studies (UL). Between 2009 and 2012 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Her Doctoral thesis NO ALEPH, with a view towards ACARTE Service from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation between 1984 and 1989, received an Honourable Mention in Contemporary History From the Mário Soares Foundation. Researcher at IFILNOVA, part of the group Culture, Power and Identities of the Institute of Contemporary History and the group Theory and Aesthetics of Contemporary Performative Arts of the Centro de Estudos de Teatro. Is a co-founder and curator of the baldio platform| Estudos de Performance, and dramaturg in theatre and dance having worked with Romeu Costa, Marta Carreiras, Raquel Castro and Mariana Tengner Barros, Manuel Henriques, Romeu Costa, Miguel Castro Caldas, Bruno Bravo and Gonçalo Amorim. Received a Dwigth Conquergood Award at Performance Studies international #17, Utrecht.

Projectos

João dos Santos Martins

João dos Santos Martins was born in Santarém in 1989. He studied dance and choreography at various institutions in Europe between 2007 and 2011, including at P.A.RT.S. and e.x.er.c.e. He works as choreographer and dancer since 2008, articulating his practice through several specific collaborations in pieces such as Le Sacre du Printemps (2013) with Min Kyoung Lee, Autointitulado, 2015, with Cyriaque Villemaux and Antropocenas, 2017, with Rita Natálio. João also collaborated on Teatro Praga shows, adapted the solo Conquest (2011) by Deborah Hay, produced by the Serralves Foundtion, and dances in works by Eszter Salamon, Xavier le Roy and Ana Rita Teodoro. In 2017 he organized the cycle Nova—Velha Dança as a reflection on the recent history of dance in Portugal where, together with the historian Ana Bigotte Vieira, he developed a Timeline for collectively documenting these practices. His work has been shown in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, The Korean Republic, New Zealand, Mozambique, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay. His piece Projecto Continuado (2015) was awarded the prize for Choreography by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores in 2016.

Projectos

Through building a chronology for dance in Portugal, PARA UMA TIMELINE A HAVER is a collective exercise in research and the signalling of markers relating to the development and dissemination of dance as an artistic practice in Portugal in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing especially on the second half of the 20th century.
Taking place between 2016 and 2017, and accepting the present as a place of enunciation, it proposes the singular construction of a series of chronologies for contemporary dance in Portugal, relating significant main social, political, cultural, biographical and artistic events – as suggested by dancers, choreographers, critics, technicians, historians and spectators.
With this exercise, the aim is to signal episodes which – by influencing authors, practices and institutions – gradually delineated the history of dance in Portugal, inserting them into a broader perspective of not only the transformations through which Portuguese society went through, but also the discourse on choreography (and what dance is or could be as an artistic practice), in order to glimpse tensions, key moments and emblematic episodes.

Ana Bigotte Vieira and João dos Santos Martins

* Throughout 2019 a new phase of research will be developed in residency at the Escola Superior de Dança (Lisbon) which will result in a new installation of Timeline.

Cronologia

Ficha técnica

Curation, investigation and Editing Ana Bigotte Vieira, João dos Santos Martins Research Support Pedro Cerejo, Sílvia Pinto Coelho Contributions Alexandra Balona, Ana Cristina Vicente, Ana Mira, André e. Teodósio, António Cascais, António Laginha, Cristiana Rocha, Cristina Grande, Cristina Santos, Daniel Tércio, Duarte Bénard da Costa, Elisabete Paiva, Ezequiel Santos, Gil Mendo, Joclécio Azevedo, Luísa Roubaud, Magda Henriques, Margarida Bettencourt, Maria José Fazenda, Mariana Brandão, Mariana Pinto dos Santos, Mónica Guerreiro, Paula Caspão, Paula Garcia, Rita Natálio, Rogério Nuno Costa, Sílvia Pinto Coelho, Tiago Bartolomeu Costa Support Calouste Gulbenkian Fundation, Câmara Municipal de Santarém, Sá da Bandeira Theatre, Tigre de Papel Bookstore Partnership IHC Instituto de História Contemporânea, Centro de Estudos de Teatro Design Ana Schefer e Teo Furtado Projecto apoiado por DGArtes – Direcção Geral das Artes no contexto do ciclo NOVA-VELHA DANÇA
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