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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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Novos Materiais
1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025

VORACE

Sofia Kafol

Dancer, choreographer and human being with a funny accent, 1996.

Luso-Slovene, raised and educated in Trieste, Italy, matured in Slovenia.

Originally trained in classical ballet at the Conservatory in Maribor, Slovenia, she expanded her horizons with a degree in Languages and Literature at the University of Trieste. She moved to Porto to further her dance studies at Oficina ZERO, where she took part in creations by Mafalda Deville, Elisabeth Lambeck and Horácio Macuacua. She collaborates as a performer with Edward Clug (Peter Pan, 2011), Dario Cossutta (Intiméla, 2019), Luisa Mota (Delicate Nature, 2021), Daniel Matos (VÄRA, 2022), Ana Rita Barata (O AQUI, 2022), João Sanchez (FINIMONDO, 2023), Davis Freeman (REFLECTION, 2023), Francisco Camacho (GUST 9723, 2023), Ana Jezabel (Dia-a-Dia, 2023), Paulina Olowska (Alphabet, 2023), João dos Santos Martins (Vida e Obra, 2024), Kensaku Shinohara (Good Bye, 2024), Madalena Victorino (CASAIS, 2023; RUMOR, 2024) among others. She experiences the body as an archive of sensory memories, a place of deconstruction and celebration, in a continuous search for emancipation and pleasure. This is how she created the solo LADYLIKE (2021), which is part of the National Young Creators Exhibition 2024 (Gerador). She is currently in the process of creating VORACE.

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VORACE ©João Sanchez
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VORACE is an arena of dichotomies, a desire for stability that consumes itself just by wanting it. An attempt at emancipation in a body that activates other bodies. An ode to insistence that comes from the roots and is savoured in the mouth.

I tear apart my intimacy with an urgency for deconstruction, at an inner, social and imaginative level. I make my body available to its permeable rhythm, between frustration and acceptance, pleasure and violence. Voracity is at the root of the desire to reach myself. Voracity is what makes me open my mouth, even when I’m afraid and it’s difficult, even when I’m in the forest.

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Creation and Interpretation Sofia Kafol Artistic Assistant Giulia Romitelli Costumes Sofia Kafol and Ana Cristina Aguiar Rodrigues Production Sofia Kafol Film, Photography and Design João Sanchez External Views Joana Cunha Pinto, Beatriz Sarmento Support and Residencies Atopémonos Bailando [Espanha], KALE Cooperativa Cultural, Sekoia - Artes Performativas, Polo Cultural Gaivotas - Boavista [CML], Danza Step [Itália], A PiSCiNA

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