Annamaria Ajmone, Sara Leghissa, Michele Rizzo Ghostcasters: listen, whisper, scatter

Annamaria Ajmone is a dancer and choreographer. She graduated in Modern Literature from the University of Milan and trained as a dancer at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan. At the heart of her research is the body, understood as a malleable and mutable material capable of transforming spaces into places, creating parallels and temporal overlaps. Her performances are the result of collective work, born from encounters and exchanges where it is often difficult to identify the ownership of the artistic object. She presents her works at numerous dance, theater, and performing arts festivals, museums, art galleries, and foundations, including: Torino Danza (Turin), La Biennale Danza (Venice), Public Fiction (Los Angeles), brut (Vienna), Bit-teatergarasje (Bergen), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Pinacoteca Agnelli (Turin), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), Fabbrica Europa (Florence), FOG Triennale (Milan), Short Theater (Rome), Le Quarz (Brest), ADC (Geneva), far° (Nyon), Théâtre de la Ville, Artdhantè (Vanves), CNDC (Angers), On Marche (Marrakech), BiPOD Festival (Beirut), Ramallah Contemporary Festival (Ramallah), M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival (Singapore), New Dance For Asia International Festival (Seoul), Festival Aperto (Reggio Emilia).

Sara Leghissa is an independent artist active in the field of performative arts. Her work encompasses creation, stage action, and curating. Her research stems from a need for connection, sharing, and transformation with contexts and people. Her artistic practice primarily develops in public spaces and explores the dynamics of power within them. Through an ecology of resources principle, she uses whatever is already available in the environment as much as possible. She co-organizes Nobodys Indiscipline, an international independent platform for exchanging practices in the performing arts; NESSUNO, a public gathering for a community of people who, throughout the night, reclaim and celebrate the energy of bodies and their diversity; Saune Never Dry, a meeting space for building queer and decolonial practices. She co-founded the Strasse collective, a site-specific creation project that uses performance and cinema codes to question and intensify our relationship with reality. She has published the books Will you marry me? and La scuola ha riaperto come dopo una nevicata with the NERO publishing house.

Michele Rizzo is an Italian artist based in Milan. He integrates choreography and visual arts, often exploring themes such as the experience of the club and the collective rituals associated with it, expressed through dance. His works include “HIGHER xtn.” (2018), acquired by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, “Rest” (2020), exhibited at the Rome Quadriennale d’Arte and acquired by the Sandretto Foundation in Turin, “Reaching” (2021) presented at KW in collaboration with the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin, “Coalescing Towards” (2023). Since 2020, Rizzo has collaborated as a movement director with fashion brands such as MARNI, Magliano, Moschino, and others, and regularly teaches at institutions like SNDO and Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, HEAD in Geneva, and other institutions.

Serafine Pala is a performer, curator, and artist. She plays and engages with her passions in various activities within the Italian independent scene. She works with her body and with sound and video materials as additional bodies in transformation, exchanging flows of images and sounds with emotions and moods.