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.
Rite Of Decay is a choreographic project by Joana Castro, in collaboration with the song Diana Combo, which will be premiered in February 2020 at the GUIdance Festival at the Vila Flor Cultural Center (Guimarães).
Rite Of Decay is a dance about death, or several deaths. The management of a body that multiplies in others, already extinct or to come. In decay, which exposes itself, which fails, where everything and nothing, persistence and renunciation, presence and absence, meet in the attempt to reconcile with the end. The end of the world as a metaphor for our own degradation.
Preview
25 de Janeiro, 21h30
Centro Cultural do Cartaxo
Diversos