The 2022 festival program has been unveiled during the press conference
The 2022 edition reclaims the city’s spaces with a programme that combines theatre, performance, dance and music. In Pergine, Lucia Calamaro will come with her “Darwin inconsolabile” and the festival will host the premieres of “Giacomo” by Teatro dei Borgia and “Poetica” by Tindaro Granata/Franco Arminio. Fabrizio Saiu with “Métron extended” and Macarena Recuerda Shepherd with “The Watching Machine” will make their national debut. There will be many site-specific projects that explore the urban and social fabric of the territory. Piazza Fruet will become the festival hub with a stage for live music and a festival bar.
After two editions impacted by the pandemic and the need to reinvent proposals and spaces, Pergine Festival returns to the ordinary extraordinary, with a programme that puts the artists’ gaze back at the centre and reclaims the places that gave birth to this event.
The 47th edition, which was presented at a press conference in Trento in the presence of the provincial councillor for Culture, Mirko Bisesti, and the deputy mayor of Pergine Valsugana, Daniela Casagrande, will take place from 1 to 16 July, with a programme that ranges from theatre, performance, dance and music.
The focus is on the various themes of contemporaneity, investigated through multi-disciplinary artistic practices and processes of research and creation that involve public and natural space, but also the social fabric of the territory.
«With 2022, a new three-year artistic program is inaugurated – explains artistic director Carla Esperanza Tommasini – which focuses on the re-launch of culture, on the support for artists and research processes. The festival promotes practices that explore contemporary society through productions and projects that reflect the national and international artistic reality with a focus on new dramaturgy, multidisciplinary languages, creation for public space, and new forms of theatre. The aim of Pergine Festival is to create a unique and transversal cultural offer, fostering the growth of a curious audience, open to contemporaneity and unusual artistic experiences ».
THE PROGRAMME
The programme of Pergine Festival 2022 is spread over three weeks, with proposals ranging from theatre, performance, dance and music, and with a focus on site-specific creations that explore the urban and social fabric of the territory.
The first week opens with ‘Eutopia’ by Trickster-P, a mix of performance, installation and game design that invites the audience to explore a new way of ‘doing together’. The performance will be repeated on 1 and 2 July at 6.30 pm and on Sunday 3 July at 6.30 pm and 9.30 pm. The evening of Friday 1 July is dedicated to Martina Badiluzzi with her study of “Penelope”: in an empty space, a woman reflects on her first love story, observes herself in relation to a man, and deduces that she has been a Penelope. To follow, in Piazza Fruet, live music by the Underleggins.
Saturday 2 July, after Trickster-P, it’s time for Lucia Calamaro: at 8.30pm at Teatro Comunale, she debuts with her “Darwin inconsolabile”, the story of a solitary woman simulating her own death (as it is done by some animals in nature) to catch the attention of her distracted son and daughter. The evening ends with the dj set by Violenzo Psichedelico in Piazza Fruet.
On Sunday 3 July, Pergine Festival begins in the morning with Luca Stefenelli/Montanamente’s trekking. The first stage of “S-velare paesaggi” will take us to discover the Conoide di Susà, on the slopes of the Marzola. At 8.30 pm, Fabrizio Saiu will be at the Ex Rimessa Carrozze for the national debut of “Métron extended”, a concert-performance fusing music, movement and technology. Toolbar‘s concert will close the first week of the festival in Piazza Fruet.
The second week of the Pergine Festival opens on Wednesday 6 at 8.30 pm with the preview of “Giacomo”. Teatro dei Borgia brings to the stage the political speech of Giacomo Matteotti, comparing two of his speeches in Parliament.
On Thursday 7,”Soft skills but strong” by artist Elisabetta Consonni will take us on a journey made up of meetings and exchanges with people and groups of the Pergine’s ares in search of invisible practices and skills. Repeats on July 7, 8, 9 and 10 at 6.30pm, 8pm and 9.30 pm. Also on Thursday 7, at 8.30 pm, Filippo Porro e Simone Zambelli are at the Ex Rimessa Carrozze with “Ombelichi tenui. Ballata per due corpi nell’aldilà”, a reflection in dance on the themes of estrangement and rapprochement. The evening closes with Degrado da radici & Bianca starting at 9.30 pm in Piazza Fruet.
On Friday 8 July at 18.30 and 19.45, Sauf Le Dimanche arrives in piazza Municipio with “Harvest”: the three performers of the collective have spent a week in residence in Pergine, asking the inhabitants of the town to give them a gesture. At 8.30 pm, mopstudio presents ‘Augmented Me’, a performance that brings together dance, music and new media. The live music concert in Piazza Fruet is performed by indie-alternative rock by Cosmetic.
On Saturday 9 July, Nana Francisca Schottländer is at 10.00 am in Sala Maier for the start of ‘Heavy Kinship # 9: Water, Flesh and Rock’, an intimate encounter between human bodies and mineral bodies, between rock and flesh (repeated the following day at the same time). At 8.30 pm, Bluemotion/Giorgina Pi proposes “Tiresias”, based on the text “Hold your own” by Kae Tempest. Piazza Fruet is instead all for DJ Remo’o, among world music, house and funk.
Sunday 10 July opens with performances by Nana Francisca Schottländer and Elisabetta Consonni. At 8.30 pm there is Malmadur with the premiere of “Bildung”, a show on the theme of learning as the only way to become oneself, and at 10 pm Lorenzo Maragoni with “Questa cosa che sembra me”, a poetic monologue with comic traces.
On Wednesday 13 July at 7 p.m., “La Möa” by Lorenzo Morandini opens the third week of the Pergine Festival. “La Möa”, which in the dialect of Val di Fiemme means a small body of water, is a travelling dance performance created at the end of the first lockdown. Next, at 8.30 pm at the Don Bosco Theatre, comes Teodoro Bonci del Bene with “Sensitive Data: New Constructive Ethics”, a show presented in Genoa as part of the G8 PROJECT.
On Thursday 14 July (and repeated on 15 and 16) there is Neja Tomšič with the premiere of “Tea for five: Opium Clippers”, a performance inspired by the traditional Chinese tea ceremony. At 8.30 pm, a national preview of Franco Arminio e Tindaro Granata‘s “Poetica”, a “humanographic” map of Italian towns, will be staged at Don Bosco Theatre. This will be followed, in Piazza Fruet, by the music of Cacao.
On Friday 15 July, from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm and from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm, a workshop on cultural accessibility organised by the Fedora association in collaboration with Maria Chiara Ciaccheri. In the evening, Macarena Recuerda Shepherd arrives at Don Bosco with the national premiere of “The Watching Machine”, a performance that plays on optical illusions. Johnny Mox‘s music closes the day.
Saturday 16 July, the last day of Pergine Festival 2022, opens with the second part of “S-Velare paesaggi” by Luca Stefenelli/Montanamente, this time on the path that leads from Nogarè to Buss. Also investigating nature in its inseparable relationship with the human being is “La Buca” by Leonardo Delogu/Dom-, an itinerant performance departing at 6.30 pm from the Don Bosco Theatre. After the repeat of “Tea for five”, grand finale at 9.30 pm in Piazza Fruet with Bim Bum Balaton, a project by Bassano DJ Tobia Fiorese.
For the entire duration of the festival, the Festival Bar will be open in Piazza Fruet from 7 pm to midnight (closed Mondays and Tuesdays).
Pergine Festival confirms its commitment to accessibility and also in 2022 wants to be “barrier-free”. The NO LIMITS project, coordinated by the Fedora Cultural Association, guarantees the inclusion of people with physical and sensory disabilities, providing services such as dedicated transport, space mapping, subtitling, translations in LIS – Italian Sign Language, audio-introductions and live audio-descriptions, as well as the training of volunteers directly involved in the project’s activities.
Tickets will be on sale from 8 June on Liveticket.