Annamaria Ajmone’s performance for and with “Arena Stadera” unfolds and takes shape in real time. The space remains untouched, yet it triggers the dance—an ever-evolving composition born from the immediate encounter between its active elements: architectural structures, movement, and the posture of the audience.
The choreography follows no pre-written script, tasks, or guidelines. Instead, it builds itself in the moment, with every element informing every choice as it happens. The audience is invited to move, shift their perspective. By positioning themselves differently, they introduce new elements into the performance, feeding its composition.
Ajmone’s performance engages with the spatiality of Arena Stadera, an installation by Fantastudio and Sara Ricciardi Studio, where the theme of hospitality takes center stage. A series of events and interventions, including Ajmone’s, will bring together artists in performances, talks, and workshops for the entire community. Each day, the garden transforms into a stage open to all forms of cultural expression, becoming a true hub of social connection and collective experience.
This event is part of Performing Architecture ↗, a city-wide festival running from April 3–13 across five neighborhoods in Milan’s south side, tracing a path between architecture and performing arts. Five districts, five visions—a laboratory of experimentation where architecture becomes body, sound, ritual, and refuge. A collective exercise in rethinking urban living, turning spaces into places of encounter, gesture, and listening.
Performing Architecture is a project born from the collaboration between BASE Milano and DOPO? and is one of the winning projects of the Festival Architettura, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture to support and enhance contemporary architecture in Italy.