The Alberto Peruzzo Foundation presents INTRA First edition of a performing arts festival dedicated to the world of improvisation.
Dance and theater performances, video installations, concerts, DJ sets, exhibitions for 16 events, all with free admission On the occasion of the event, the work Stadium by Maurizio Cattelan is set up in the former church of Sant’Agnese, a very long table football with which the Foundation invites the public to interact with Art.
From May 24, the Foundation’s headquarters will be further enriched thanks to Dante61, the new bookshop May 9 – 28, 2025 FREE ENTRY Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo Former Church of Sant’Agnese, Padua www.fondazionealbertoperuzzo.it
From May 9 to 28, 2025, the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation presents INTRA, a new festival of performing arts designed to combine the institution’s exhibition activity with forays into other expressive languages, creating a moment “between the exhibitions” – hence the name INTRA – that will transform the spaces of the former church into a place of contamination.
16 events including art, music, theater and performance, many of which have a common vocation for improvisation, will enrich the Foundation’s programming, activating dialogues between contemporary arts.
On Friday 9 May at 7:00 pm the festival opens with music proposed in collaboration with A Love Supreme Impro Festival and performances by clarinetist Greta Romani and the solo double bass of Mirco Ballabene, and with the exhibition Riflessi di Storia. Echi di futuro by Giovanni De Sandre who photographed the transformation of the former Palazzo Lanza, decorated with frescoes by Giovanni De Min made between 1821 and 1824.
Having become part of the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation in 2018, the building is currently being modernized to open new exhibition spaces connected to the former church of Sant’Agnese in the future.
Maurizio Cattelan and STADIUM (exhibition copy) During the days of the festival, the spaces of the nave of the former Church will be dominated by STADIUM (exhibition copy) by Maurizio Cattelan, a temporary installation that invites visitors to try their hand at crowded table football matches, combining art and interaction, inviting reflection on the boundaries of artistic expression and social issues such as racism.
STADIUM, in fact, is a table football table almost 7 meters long, for challenges of 11 against 11 players, but also a metaphor for society and class divisions. During the event, the calendar of challenges will also involve the teams of Calcio Padova (14 May) and Petrarca Rugby (22 May), as well as the teams of some departments of the University of Padua and various city associations.
Wednesday, May 14
Among the events not to be missed, Wednesday, May 14, the concert of the DOOOM Orchestra, a collective of young musicians that explores improvisation, founded by Francesco Cigana in 2018:
the ensemble’s performance will be preceded by the preview of the documentary Our Sea Lies Within, which tells the story of the recording of their album.
The group offers a repertoire in which improvisation drags the listener on a journey that intertwines Mexican folk, Sicilian popular music, krautrock, Southeast Asian rituals, contemporary Eurocultured music, American free jazz, electronics and Dadaism.
May 22 Thursday will be the turn of dance with Inesorabilmenteunavia, by Emma Zani and Roberto Doveri:
a performance inspired by Il Bisonte (1998) by Bizhan Bassiri and Stefano Taglietti, a video-opera that investigates the relentless regeneration of nature.
The two dancers will bring a dialogue between different perspectives to the stage, inviting the achievement of new balances through the search for inner harmony.
Saturday, May 24 Saturday, the opening to the public of Dante61, the Foundation’s new bookshop, next to the former church of Sant’Agnese, is also scheduled.
Artist projects, independent publishing houses, limited edition books, art catalogues and niche publishing realities will be the protagonists of this new space, designed with the intent of enhancing visual cultures and new publishing practices.
For the occasion, Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo, 2011-2025 will be presented, a three-volume box set that reconstructs the history of the foundation.
On the same day, the first edition of Viadante Art District will also be organized, an initiative created in synergy with other artistic realities of Via Dante, which will see the exceptional closure of the historic street for one day, thus transforming it into a salon dedicated to art, with studio visits and numerous events.
Sunday 25 May
The intention to open up to the widest possible audience including young people is well represented on Sunday 25 May by Electric Body, the concert-performance by Pollini Electroacoustic Ensemble curated by the Electronic Music School of the Pollini Conservatory of Padua
The concert is followed by the first study, the result of a dance workshop that saw the students of the Conservatory and the students of Spaziodanza Padova interact:
a performance in which the dancers’ bodies become generators of sounds thanks to the movement captured by sensors with which the musicians interact.
Promotion and enhancement of the territory With INTRA, the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation further enriches its activity of promotion and enhancement of the territory, offering a festival that involves artists and performers in a close dialogue with the spaces of the former Church, home of the institution.
As in the happenings of the Sixties, total centrality is given to improvisation and its ability to involve, disorientate, stimulate the audience.
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Nuova Sant’Agnese | Alberto Peruzzo Foundation Via Dante 63 – 35139 Padova
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