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.
“Warm” is a choreographic and dramaturgical research on the density of the space “in between”, where human relationships and their oscillating movements between attachment and detachment, empathy and indifference express themselves. A research on the distance between bodies in the urban space, as well as their various interacting states and realities; an exploration into the sensations and feelings that these exchanges can generate and the impact they can have in the intimate space. A project focusing on the objectification of the body, the humanization of the object and the whole range of intensity between these two things. A research on the heat experienced, shared or fantasized or on how to question these notions within the theater itself.
An occasion to question the dramaturgical potential of all these themes, the correlations between them and how they might resonate with a certain generation, or a certain topicality.
Dancer and young emerging choreographer from the French community in Belgium, Fanny Brouyaux juggles between interpretation, creation and project accompaniment as an external eye. After her studies at P.A.R.T.S., she created collective performances for spaces that were not previously staged, then joined Taoufiq Izeddiou’s Anania-Danses cie as a performer for the show “Rev’Illusion”, a show evoking the dreams and disillusions of the Arab Spring. In 2014, inspired by the mechanism of spreading rumours, she created “Un bruit” (« A noise »), her first play on the occasion of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Moroccan immigration to Belgium.
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