44° edition: a community and its global connections
Which worlds do we belong to?
With this question, Pergine Festival, in its 44th edition, comes back between June 28 and July 13, with a programme presented this morning during the press conference at the Teatro Sociale in Trento, in the framework of Cultura Informa.
The rapid diffusion of information, trends and ideas, the possibility of reaching distant places in short time and new technologies, connect of all of us with a global dimension: relations with the other and the elsewhere lead us to work, think and communicate on a planetary scale. For this reason, being world citizens cultivating a global conscience become a challenge, an horizon to aim for but at the same time they are necessary conditions to be able to face the complexity of our present day.
The programme of the 44th edition of Pergine Festival, under the artistic direction of Carla Esperanza Tommasini, aims at exploring the theme investigated last year about the sense of belonging and community, opening its gaze to the connections with the world: «The work on this edition of the Festival has developed in continuity with 2018 – states the artistic director during the press conference – The Festival,for ten days, with some breaks, will run for a 16 days period, also in response to a series of needs emerged from the observation of the context in which we work. The objectives of the Festival are, on the one hand, to confirm itself as a reference point on the national contemporary scene both in Italy and abroad, and on the other – concludes Tommasini – to root in the territory and in the community through the development of different projects that diversify and develop the audience, providing a 360 degree high-level cultural experience ».
THE PROGRAMME
Pergine Festival aims to support Italian and foreign artists who work through new multidisciplinary languages with special attention to projects that explore contemporary creation through original dramaturgies, innovative forms and languages, works created for the Festival.
The artistic programme is characterized by shows capable of mixing different languages: images, texts, sounds, bodies and moving objects. Circolo Bergman, in this sense, after a few years in which they explored Pergine’s historical memory, they return with Bilderatlas (June 30, 8.45 pm, EX Rimessa Carrozze), a show which investigates the power of images in a time when every day, millions of photos are shared online and through which everybody tries to compose an image of himself. This year, Effetto Larsen will re-open Palazzo Crivelli, with their AFTER / DOPO, a participative and site-specific creation on the transience of life.
As a national premiere, the work of the Ibero-American artists Azkona & Toloza, Tierras del sur (4th July, 9 pm, Teatro Comunale), portrays a piece of contemporary Argentine history and the links between the great foreign businesses and the atrocities that the native peoples had to endure, with an approach working through documentary rigor, puppetry and video language.
Dante Antonelli with Act of adoration (July 5, at 8.45 pm, Rimessa Carrozze), first chapter of a work inspired by Mishima, intertwines languages and stories, offering a cross-section of contemporary youth that claims its right to exist today and tomorrow.
The festival will present the work by Elio Germano and Teho Teardo, Journey at the End of the Night (6 July, 8.45 pm, Teatro Comunale), which brings Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s novel on stage. Retracing some fragments of the literary work, the show wants to restore the grotesque desperation of the masterpiece, which finds new expressions in the interesting mixture of text and music. A brand new participatory project will be staged: Amour by the artistic collective Dynamis (11 July, 8.45 pm, Teatro Don Bosco), seeks to create a bridge between realities that are usually distant, but share a common passion for theater: theater professionals and amateurs. Moving on a personal dimension, the new creation by Giuliana Musso, La Scimmia (12 July, 8.45 pm, Teatro Comunale) rewrites Kafka, telling the story of a monkey and its survival strategy between the loss of the body experience, of emotion and of itself. Exploring our contemporaneity in an interesting musical version, the last show of Babilonia Teatri, Calcinculo (13 July, 20.30, Teatro Comunale) examines the relationships we build with the world around us.
Emerging creativity is a central interest for the Festival, to which more and more space and attention has been devoted over the years, enhancing the various scouting and opportunities. For the 44th edition, the international call OPEN / CONTEMPORARY [URBAN] CREATION, established a collaboration with other Italian cultural organizations interested in contemporary creation for urban space, such as Zona K – Milan, Indisciplinarte / Terni Festival and Invisible Cities – Gorizia. From 400 applications received, the project Ti voglio un bene pubblico by Elisabetta Consonni was selected; an urban game that reflects on dividing infrastructures such as gates, walls, fences (28-29 June, 7.30pm and 9.15pm, starting from Sala Maier). Another project supported by OPEN is the Still Night performance by the British company Berlin, Nevada, which, inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, makes the city that hosts it the start of a journey in which real places mix with imaginary perspectives (28-29 June, 8.00 pm and 9.45 pm, Sala della Comunità di Valle). The third project selected by the call is By Mushrooms by Yao Liao, a Taiwanese artist based in London: a guided audio performance in the public space that explores the relationship between the beholder and who is being looked at, through a curious headdress shaped like a mushroom (10 – 13 July, 7.00 pm and 8.30 pm, starting from Sala Maier).
SUPERNOVA is a new section inaugurated for the first time this year, aimed at emerging realities in the field of Italian live entertainment, in order to investigate contemporary creation through original dramaturgies, innovative forms and languages. Among more than 200 projects received through an open call, three performances have been selected. The work of Giovanni Ortoleva – young director present at the Biennale di Venezia Teatro last year – Oh Little Man!, which questions the global economic system and the crises that brought the capitalist system to its knees and then brought it back to its feet stronger than before (7 July, 8.45 pm, Rimessa Carrozze). T.I.N.A by Giselda Ranieri, dancer and choreographer recently selected by Anticorpi XL – Network for the Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore (June 28, 20.30, Rimessa Carrozze). Finally the ètouffe project, a collaboration between the Polish composer and choreographer Anna Sowa, the talented Perginese musician Margherita Berlanda and the violinist Dorota Jasinska, who investigates the contemporary human condition through an interesting research between sound, movement, silence and Italian sign language (29 June, 8.30pm and 9.45pm, former Rimessa Carrozze).
DERIVE URBANE (URBAN DRIFTS)
In the heart of the historic center of Pergine, the Derive Urbane project will be an invitation to participate and to share, through a programme which mixes artistic creations, concerts, site-specific interventions, accessible events and participatory projects, within Piazza Fruet, designed for the occasion by Acropolis, a young group of engineers and architects. The square is also proposed this year as a hub and meeting point of the festival: a lounge bar and a program dedicated entirely to music with bands belonging to the rich musical panorama of Trentino, dj sets and other events such as meetings, screenings and urban interventions, realized thanks to the dense network of collaborations activated with local associations.
The bands on stage will be: Anansi & Hot Mustache, Mad Medulla, Curly Frog & the Blues Bringers, Hi | Fi Gloom, Rebel Rootz. The DJ sets will be by Ale Soul Dj, Noirêve and Steel Wheels.
Within Derive Urbane there is also a special project dedicated to the community of Pergine, with some nostalgy: Datti una mossa! Tournament of Draughts board game – created in collaboration with the Pro Loco of Pergine and presented by Mario Cagol – will bring together Pergine’s cultural and sport associations in a large-scale challenge: piazza Municipio will become a great chessboard, in memory of the first two editions of the Festival, those of the 1976 and 1977. Radio Dolomiti will follow the challenge live.
Among the proposals of Derive Urbane also some accessible events of the NO LIMITS project.
NO LIMITS: A FESTIVAL WITHOUT BARRIERS
The NO LIMITS project was created in Pergine Festival in 2012 to guarantee accessibility to culture and inclusion for people with both physical and sensory disabilities. Over the years, many services have been implemented: dedicated transport, mapping of venues, subtitling, translations into LIS – Italian Sign Language, audio introductions and live audio descriptions, as well as training volunteers directly involved in project activities .
For the 2019 edition, in addition to the services already offered in previous years, Pergine Festival has chosen to organize a series of meeting to create awareness, experimenting with different approaches, from the aperitif in sign language, to the concert by the deaf rapper Brazzo and blind drummer Aleks Bonelli, passing through an inclusive urban trekking route. Moreover, promotional materials clearly indicate accessibility options: numerous installations are indeed suitable for any type of audience.