The program of the autumn edition
After the summer edition and its 15 days of music and performance, Pergine Festival returns from the 27th to 31st of October with a new “autumn edition”. The main theme of this 45th edition is nature. Tickets are already on sale in early bird.
In this unusual year, Pergine Festival has chosen to divide its cultural programme into two seasons, summer and autumn. The autumn edition, scheduled from October 27 to 31, continues the investigation of the relationship between human beings and the environment, opening up a reflection of a series of issues related to our role within a complex ecosystem, as well as the consequences of our actions. The need to unleash powerful responses resonates again, while we face devastating events, and at the same time, to calm the troubled waters and rebuild peaceful places.
While the summer season has hosted shows, concerts, performances and installations outdoors, the autumn season will focus on productions related to theatrical spaces – with some national debuts – promoting the innovation of languages and experimentation, through workshops and days of work dedicated to the deepening of specific themes.
In this way, the Festival intends to offer the audience a selection of projects of recognized artistic quality, as well as critical reflections to rethink our being in the world, returning to living and sharing spaces and artistic practices.
THE PROGRAM
Tuesday, October 27th, the Festival reproposes the cinematographic nigt started during the summer edition. On the big screen of Teatro Don Bosco, in fact, will be projected the documentary short films NATURAE, curated by Roberto Cavallini. Cavallini’s work invites us to reflect on our relationship with natural landscapes and those we shape, on the many representations of nature, the environment and their exploitation. The films presented: RIAFN by Hannes Lang (DE, 2019); Nature: All Rights Reserved by Sebastian Mulder (BE, 2016); Hoa by Marco Zuin (IT, 2018); La Buona Novella by Sebastiano Luca Insinga (IT, 2019); Tutto compreso by Corina Schwingruber Ilic (CH, 2018).
In the theatre Don Bosco, on Wednesday 28th, the company Stalker Teatro proposes the show LA NEBBIA DELLA LUPA, a dreamlike and synthetic creation that investigates the power of nature through an imaginative world of allegorical figures and shamanic epiphanies.
On Thursday 29th, the newborn collective Kalakara, formed by the Polish violinist Dorota Jasinska, the accordionist Margherita Berlanda from Pergine and the Polish composer Anna Sowa, makes its debut at the Teatro Don Bosco at 9 p.m.. Kalakara brings to Pergine CLOSE UP, a play of musical theater that experiments with the interaction between body, acoustic and electronic sounds to reflect on human reactions to natural forces.
Thursday evening continues at 22.00 always at Don Bosco with a double reflection on lockdown and quarantine.
Azione_Improvvisa Ensemble presents 40″ KLANG ROOM, an audio-visual project that involved 10 composers of contemporary music in the creation of 10 scores inspired by the 4 rooms where the musicians found themselves separated by isolation.
Martina Badiluzzi (winner of the directors’ competition of the Venice Biennale 2019 and guest of Pergine Festival last July with the performance Forastica) proposes instead ELETTROSTATICA, a pulp story that portrays the Pindaric flights of a woman confined in a small apartment during lockdown, transforming her into an imaginary and metropolitan heroine.
Friday 30th and Saturday 31st at 6.30 p.m., IL SEMPLICE PROFONDO, investigates the relationship Man-Nature with special creation for the Festival curated by Nullo Facchini in the laboratory “Creating Transformative Encounters”. Facchini, director of the award-winning Danish company Cantabile 2, was inspired by the performative practices of Human Specific, focusing on the immersive dimension, the one-to-one encounter and the exploration of intimacy at the time of social distancing.
On Friday 30th at 21.00, contemporary theater returns with Dynamis theatre group. Artistic research group dedicated to performing arts (as well as artists associated to the Festival), Dynamis make their debut with MONDAY, a show realized in collaboration with ENEA – National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. In this new work, the fantastic world of plastics, their use and disposal, become socially essential themes, in an apparent race against extinction that ends up tracing a manifesto of conscious destruction.
Saturday, October 31st at 8.30 pm, the company Oyes closes the Festival with VIVERE È UN’ALTRA COSA. The play opens a reflection on the current context of the pandemic, with a delicate and self-deprecating five-voice tale of the suspended time of lockdown.
In continuity with the summer program, IL MUSEO DELL’EMPATIA by Diana Anselmo comes back to Pergine: an installation that concretizes the study around the theme of stigma and deconstruction of the canon. The work will be available Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 8.00 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 5.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. in the portico of the Teatro Don Bosco.
For the second consecutive year, the Festival will also host the projects selected by P.A.G. – PERGINE ARTE GIOVANE, the call through which the City of Pergine Valsugana supports young artists under 35 from Trentino – Alto Adige. On October 27th at 18.00 the visual arts section will be inaugurated with a collective exhibition in Sala Maier. The visual works of Ludovico Tartarotti, the collective A5sensi and Paola Boscaini will be exhibited. In the same evening, at the opening of the Naturae program, the short documentary Viva by Marco Loss will be presented. For the performing arts section, in combination with the Festival’s shows, we will present the performances ‘Idillio’ by Lorenzo Morandini, ‘Ebbrezza distruttiva di una scimmia cappuccina’ by Jacopo Giacomoni, Lupo by Francesca Bertolini and , to conclude with the musical performance I’m a T r u e S t a r by Adele Pardi and Stefano Artini during the finissage of the exhibition.
INFOS
The cost of the tickets is 10 euros (full price) and 8 euros (reduced price). Tickets can be purchased online on primiallaprima.it up to one hour before the event, at the ticket counter of the Casse Rurali Trentine, or at the box office of the Teatro Don Bosco from one hour before the show starts. From 8th to 15th October tickets will be sold in early bird at a reduced price of 8 euros. The performance “Il semplice profondo” has a single ticket of 5 euros that can only be purchased at the venue, but a reservation is required at ticket@perginefestival.it
The performances of P.A.G. – Pergine Arte Giovane and the short films of “Naturae” are free admission, but with reservation on Eventbrite.it.
In view of the health emergency in progress, the performances will have reduced capacity to ensure individual and collective safety. Spectators are therefore invited to get a ticket in advance in order to avoid queues at the entrance.