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.
[Alexithymia: subclinical phenomenon involving a lack of emotional awareness or, more specifically, difficulty in identifying and describing feelings and in distinguishing feelings from the bodily sensations of emotional arousal]
The performance examines isolation, which is centred by the body and its strength, utility, obedience, distribution and surrender. Observes how the environment colonizes the body, sets boundaries, influences, manipulates. On a body that is pressed into the environment – whether it is a blackbox or a prison or arable land – you have to deal with routine and pragmatic repetitions – a regenerating sequence and the phenomenon of how body functions adopt to it (or not) will
be the subject of the future work. Who is ‘doing the time’, is it a viewer or a performer?
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