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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

Artistic Residencies
22 April 2019 – 4 May 2019
Grand Studio, Bruxelas

Tempos Livres

Teresa Silva

Teresa Silva (Lisbon, 1988) attended the Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, the Escola Superior de Dança (Bachelor Degree in Dance) and the PEPCC – Programa de Estudo, Pesquisa e Criação Coreográfica, administered by Forum Dança. She was trained by Deborah Hay, Meg Stuart, Vera Mantero, Loïc Touzé, Francisco Camacho, Jeremy Nelson, João Fiadeiro, Julien Hamilton, Miguel Pereira, Clara Andermatt, Emmanuelle Huynh, Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Patrícia Portela and João Tabarra among others.

She participated, as a grant recipient of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in the DanceWeb Scholarship Programme 2011 at the Festival Impulstanz Vienna.
As a performer, she highlights her work with Marco d’Agostin in Avalanche, Loïc Touzé in Forme Simple, Fanfare and Ô Montagne, Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard in For Claude Shannon, David Marques in Ressaca, Rita Natálio in Museu Encantador, Tiago Guedes in Hoje, Luís Guerra in Nevoeiro, Tânia Carvalho in Icosahedron, Ana Borralho & João Galante in World of Interiors, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz in O mesmo mas ligeiramente diferente, Mariana Tengner Barros in Peça do Coração, Luiz Antunes and Sérgio Diogo Matias in Pastiche (replacement) and Maria Ramos in Nerves Like Nylon (replacement), among others.
Since 2008, she has been developing her own work as a creator, with highlights including the solo Ocooo, with the artistic accompaniment of Loïc Touzé; A vida enorme/La vie en or co-created with Maria Lemos; Leva a mão que eu levo o braço and Um Espanto não se Espera, both created in collaboration with Elizabete Francisca (both winners of the Contest Jovens Criadores); and the adaptation of the solo Conquest by Deborah Hay, as part of the program Improvisações/Colaborações, comissioned by the Serralves Foundation; and the co-creations with Filipe Pereira, Letting Nature take over us again, O que fica do que passa and Nova Criação.

Since 2012, she has been teaching at Forum Dança, for the PEPCC training, and lecturing workshops on her own creations. More recently, she has collaborated with other artists on projects connected to pedagogy within the context of contemporary dance and performative arts.
Between 2011 and 2014, she was an associate artist with Materiais Diversos and in 2017 she was an associate artist with O Espaço do Tempo.

Projectos

Tempos Livres is based on the book The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture by Emanuele Coccia. This poetic and philosophical essay is takes the point of view of plants – leaves, roots, flowers – to understand the world not simply as a collection of objects, but also as a metaphysical mixture, in which everything interacts with everything and in which all living things share the same breath. The way Coccia describes the relationship between a plant and its environment, to me suggests the experience of a body which dances and animates that which I understand as dance. Both plant and dancer are constantly exposed and in constant communication with the surrounding environment and both are “creators” of the world around them.
I am interested in researching this relationship between subject and surrounding space, in which both are interconnected, and to understand how one influences, transforms and defines the other, reciprocally and continually. From this relationship, one focuses on the air and the breath, the voice and sound, as mediums which cross the barriers between the bodies. The body becomes space and space becomes body. Who is active and who is passive, who moves and who is moved become blurred. A place of immersion, permeability, circulation and fluidity od materials and meanings is suggested, diluting barriers, in attempting to bring closer, perhaps even confuse, the dancer, the scenic space, the spectator. Tempos Livres is a possibility to experiment with our impermanent, interdependent, mobile, porous and shareable nature.

Teresa Silva

Teresa Silva is one of the artists supported by the Europena Network More Than This (2018-2020), co-financed by the program Creative Europe of the European Union. More information: www.morethanthis.eu

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Direction Teresa Silva Artistic Collaboration and Vocal Orientation Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias Lighting Design and Scenic Space Pierre Bouglé Residency Support O Espaço do Tempo (PT), Materiais Diversos (PT) / Grand Studio (BE) and within the European Network, More Than This, Short Theater (IT) and Festival Parallèle (FR)
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