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
The Events
From May 9 to 28, 2025
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.
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.
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Nuova Sant’Agnese | Alberto Peruzzo Foundation Via Dante 63 – 35139 Padova
Free admission
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