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.
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.
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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