diversos
diversos
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.
The next edition of the Materiais Diversos Festival occurs between September 27 and October 5, 2019 in Minde, Alcanena and Cartaxo.
Each biennium, Materiais Diversos defines a set of co-productions, for which it favours above all three elements: the relationship with the territory in which it acts, through research, participation in the local community, training and informal presentations; the increment of dance research and creation for young audiences and the co-production of dance projects.
Materiais Diversos programs artistic residencies throughout the year, with special focus in the field of dance. All the residencies benefit from logistic support, in addition to cash grants to projects in the field of dance. Materiais Diversos mantains longstanding partnerships with some national and foreign organizations, expanding its capacity to support Portuguese dance, as for example their partnerships with Centro Cultural do Cartaxo, the Victor Córdon Studios, Escola Superior de Dança and the Grand Studio (Brussels).
After a year of research and preparation for an accessibility plan, we are developing a programme and communications which are increasingly more accessible. Get to know our programme Materiais Acessíveis.
Following a residency at the Porto Teatro Municipal, between 5 and 17 April, CABRAQIMERA premières in Grande Auditório do Rivoli, on 28 April at 19h. The show will also have a digital presentation at 21h30. POROMECHANICS will be available between 20 and 30 April on the Festival DDD site for free.
This month, the podcast O Tempo das Cerejas is with Costanza Givone, a choregrapher, and Giulia Lamoni, curator and researcher at the Universidade Nova of Lisbon and about women´s bodies and the way in which they are represented. Listen here.
La Burla, by Bruno Brandolino and Bibi Dória was the project selected for support in 2021, within the context of the production consultancy Novos Materiais. In La Burla, bodies and subjects are invoked for a festive, obscure and ridiculous vision of the world, in an iconic choreography in which visible and invisible figures reunite and socialize.
Sofia Silva is in residency at the Victor Córdon Studios in Lisbon between 5 and 9 April and between 26 and 30 April with Interior Presente, a research project around internal human reality and that which one thinks and feels when alone.
The Projecto de Todos e Todas, designed in collaboration with Marta Tomé and Raquel Senhorinho, and the teachers from the 2nd cycle of the AEA, will be developed between April and June, against a background of environmental crisis and our role in the ecosystems we inhabit.
