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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.

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2021
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2017

Artistic Residencies
23 July 2021 – 1 August 2021
Grand Studio

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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.

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Imagem: João dos Santos Martins

A dancer who could not dance, a singer who could not sing, an actor who could not act, a writer who could not write, a painter who could not paint. A dancer who sang, a writer who painted, an actor who wrote. It would be necessary to know what to do in order to know what to be. While the fine lines that separate being from doing, the I from the action, the thing from the subject, are confused, there is something that remains inept and dysfunctional. A monster that doesn’t do the job. 

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