PERFORMATIVE 06Saturday 12 September

Words, sound, movement: you choose where to stop and watch.

From 12 noon on Saturday, PERFORMATIVE 06 kicks off with the Festival’s grand opening. A chance to tell you how the long weekend of performances ahead of us will unfold.

From morning until evening, videos, music, and talks fills the Museum’s spaces with creativity: the corte, the camino hall and the voliera hall, the multi-purpose and video halls, and Piazza Santa Maria Paganica, directly opposite the entrance to MAXXI L’Aquila.

All you have to do is choose – or experience it all.

THE PROGRAMME

CORTE
12 pm
opening • 50’

12:50 pm
performance • 15′
Giorgio Battistelli
Il combattimento tra Orazi e Curiazi
A re-enactment of the famous duel through an audio narrative where voice, body and percussion bring to life a performance inspired by the themes of war and conflict.

5 pm
talk • 60′
Ziad Antar, Giorgio Battistelli, Andrea Cortellessa
Performare Il corpo

8 pm
performance • 30′
Toti Scialoja a cura di Ariele Vincenti
La carpa che ama l’arpa
A performance led by Ariele Vincenti that transforms the play of nonsense and rhymes into a universe of gestures, sounds and vocalisations, featuring students from the University of L’Aquila.

8:40 pm
slam poetry • 30′
Matteo Di Genova and Eleonora Fisco
Nel nonsense la parola è alla prova del nulla
The workshop explores performance poetry through slam and spoken word, inviting us to experiment with creative writing and reading as a shared and accessible practice.

CAMINO HALL
15 pm
music • 30′
John Cage
Sonatas & Interludes
A performance of John Cage’s famous cycle for prepared piano, a 20th-century avant-garde masterpiece that redefines the relationship between sound, instrument and listening.

3:30 pm / 7:50 pm / 9 pm
dance • 10′
Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass
Étude 5
A choreography that interweaves essential, repetitive movements with minimalist music, creating a performance of rigorous elegance and evocative power.

3:40 pm / 8 pm
dance • 10′
Michele Pogliani, Philip Glass
Étude 6
A danced dialogue with the music of Philip Glass through a dynamic and fluid language, in which gesture and the relationship between bodies create an experience of intense harmony.

3:50 pm / 6:30 pm
music • 10′
Pierre Jodlowsky
Time & Money
A performance that reflects on the relationship between time, money and social behaviour, transforming criticism into a sonic and theatrical experience.

4 pm / 8:10 pm
danza & live electronics • 30′
Vittorio Montalti, Giulio Colangelo & Stefania Ballone
Lascaux
A performance that weaves together dance, electronic music and lights in an immersive experience evoking the Lascaux caves and the origins of art as a ritual and collective practice.

4:30 pm / 8:40 pm
dance • 10′
Shintaro Hirahara, Philip Glass
Étude 1
Set to the music of Philip Glass, the bodies become shifting forms draped in red velvet, creating a succession of powerful images within a mysterious atmosphere.

4:40 pm / 7:30 pm
music • 10′
Javier Álvarez
Temazcal
The sound of maracas intertwines with electronic elements, creating a rhythmic landscape in which different cultures, times and places engage in dialogue through music.

4:50 pm / 5:30 pm / 7:40 pm / 8:50 pm
performance • 10′
Thierry De Mey
Silence must be
In this solo piece, the performer transforms the heartbeat into rhythm, creating a silent, complex composition that blends body, gesture, and musical perception.

5:20 pm / 6:40 pm
music • 20′
Daniele Lombardi, Francesco Filidei
Momento musicale 2 e 3 e Toccata
A piece that transcends traditional musical composition, focusing on gesture, rhythm and tone, in an exploration centred on noise and the physicality of performance.

5:40 pm / 7:10 pm
music • 20′
Steve Reich
Drumming
A masterpiece of minimalism, inspired by the musical traditions of Central Africa, which develops a single pattern through progressive timbral and rhythmic transformations.

6:40 pm
music • 20′
Daniele Lombardi, Matthew Shlomowitz
Momento musicale 2 e 3 e Free sound for popular context
A work that combines everyday sounds, recordings and music in an ironic and surprising experience that invites us to listen to what we usually ignore.

8:50 pm
dance • 10′
Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass
Étude 18
A choreography that interweaves essential, repetitive movements with minimalist music, creating a performance of rigorous elegance and evocative power.

VOLIERA HALL
3:10 pm / 8:30 pm
video and live • 20′
Jacob TV
Syracuse
A minimalist, evocative style highlights the timeless charm of Syracuse’s landscapes, monuments, sea, and everyday scenes.

3:20 pm / 4:40 pm / 6:40 pm
video and live • 20′
Steve Reich, Beryl Korot
Hindenburg from Three Tales
A multimedia work that unfolds through three crucial historical events, symbolising the evolution and risks of scientific progress: Hindenburg, Bikini and Dolly.

3:40 pm / 8:40 pm
video • 10′
Rä di Martino
August
In a setting reminiscent of a 1950s film set, two characters sing of wars and political events, in a narrative suspended between cinema and performance.

3:50 pm / 6:30 pm / 8:10 pm
video and live • 10′
Anagoor, Philip Glass
Étude 11
A visual work of intense evocative power, filmed in Şanlıurfa at a historic Sufi dervish school, where image, ritual and music merge into a hypnotic experience.

4:10 pm / 7:50 pm
music • 10′
Frederic Rzewski
Attica
A powerful indictment of institutional violence and a tribute to the voices of the oppressed, the work transforms music into an instrument of memory and resistance.

4:20 pm / 7:40 pm
video and live • 10′
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Philip Glass
Étude 20
As part of the Dancing Glass project, the artist creates the work’s video component, centred on time, light, and empty space.

4:30 pm / 9 pm
video • 10′
Shirin Neshat, Philip Glass
Étude 1
A reflection on the themes of exile, identity and belonging, transforming images and performative gesture into a poetic meditation on one’s roots.

5:10 pm / 8:20 pm
video • 10′
Sirine Fattouh
Entre les ruines
The video depicts the dancer Alexandre Paulikevitch among the ruins of Bint Jbeil (Lebanon), reflecting through dance on the impossibility of representing the violence of war.

5:20 pm
video • 10′
Philip Miller, Llewellyn Mnguni
Étude 16
This choreographer and dancer’s solo explores themes of identity, gender and transformation through the body, in dialogue with Glass’s music performed by Miller.

5:30 pm
video • 20′
Steve Reich, Beryl Korot
Bikini from Three Tales
A multimedia work that unfolds through three crucial historical events, symbolising the evolution and risks of scientific progress: Hindenburg, Bikini and Dolly.

7:10 pm
video • 10′
Jacob TV
Small Pop
A multimedia work based on ‘speech grooves’: live music is synchronised to the millisecond with video clips recorded from international media.

7:20 pm
video • 20′
Steve Reich, Beryl Korot
Dolly from Three Tales
A multimedia work that unfolds through three crucial historical events, symbolising the evolution and risks of scientific progress: Hindenburg, Bikini and Dolly.

MULTI-PURPOSE HALL
4:30 pm / 6:30 pm
performance • 40′
Camilla Barbarito and ABAQ students
La foresta di voci
A workshop dedicated to the voice as an instrument of connection and presence, where improvisation, rhythm and collective harmony transform the space and engage the audience.

VIDEO HALL
3 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 8 pm
video • 10′
Luigi Ceccarelli, Fortunato Depero, Achille Perilli
PIC
Achille Perilli’s voice, sampled and fragmented, creates sonic and rhythmic material that establishes a dialogue between technology and percussion.

3:10>4 pm / 4:10>5 pm / 5:10>6 pm/ 6:30>7 pm / 7:10>8 pm / 8:10>9 pm
video • 10′
Jacob TV
THE NEWS
A multimedia work based on ‘speech grooves’: live music is synchronised to the millisecond with video clips recorded from international media.

PIAZZA SANTA MARIA PAGANICA
5:40 pm
group performance • 30′
Bedirhan Dehmen a cura di Silvia Di Gregorio
La Conferenza degli uccelli di Farid al-Din ‘Attar
A symbolic journey exploring the themes of identity, power and the collective ability to forge alliances, based on Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s poem of the same name.

9:30 pm
live set • 90′
DJ Trixie
The DJ from Abruzzo, active on the Roman scene, presents a set that weaves house, electronic, and contemporary sounds into a rhythmic, experimental journey.