In dialogue with Chiara Camoni’s exhibition “Con te con tutto” (With You with Everything), Annamaria Ajmone accepts the invitation to inhabit the second tesa, conceived as a world under construction, composed of natural elements, artifacts, and recycled materials, open to a constantly evolving horizon.
In this context, the choreographer imagines a performative dimension dedicated to the relationship between dance and voice, understood as living and relational matter: a sensitive interface between bodies and environment, capable of generating affective and tactile configurations, becoming connective tissue and transforming space along with the dance.
The dancers construct a dialogue between organic and inorganic matter, between living and fossil, within an accumulation of sedimented memories. The structure of the creation is modular. The choreography is not fixed: it is composed of practices transmitted to the performers, who are free to transform them according to their individuality. Each material becomes new through the encounter with different bodies, regenerating itself over time.
It includes an initial performance for the opening of the Pavilion with five dancers, followed by subsequent activations throughout the months of the exhibition, during which the ensemble fragments and recomposes. This intermittent presence is accompanied by a libretto, conceived in collaboration with Giulia Polenta and Stella Succi, which collects the dancers’ voices: fragments that echo one another like a chorus. Born from the need to give voice, in a deferred form, to the performance Canti fossili, the libretto will be present and available for consultation throughout the exhibition.
The form of the printed text, like the process of fossilization, is configured here as a living trace: composed of layers that deposit, overlap, and transform over time. From this perspective, the choreographic practice is not limited to the event, but extends into its multiple material and immaterial manifestations, like an open field of fragmentary and temporary presences.
BIO
Annamaria Ajmone is a dancer and choreographer. A graduate of Modern Literature at the University of Milan, she earned a diploma as a dancer at the Paolo Grassi Civic Theatre School. Her research explores the body as a mutable material capable of transforming spaces and generating new relationships between time and place. Her works, often developed through collaborative processes, are presented at festivals, museums, and international institutions. From 2021 to 2024, she was an associate artist at Triennale Milano Teatro and a founder of the research platform Nobody’s Indiscipline.
CREDITS
Choreography: Annamaria Ajmone.
In collaboration with: Veza Fernandez, Emma Saba, Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher, Toni Steffens.
Dramatic collaboration: Stella Succi
Fashion: Fabio Quaranta
Production: Valentina Bertolino
Organization: Francesca d’Apolito
Administration: Monica Maggio
Canti fossili is part of a three-part research project that will conclude in 2027 with a performance supported by FOG Triennale Milano Teatro; Virgilio Sieni National Dance Production Center; Snaporazverein and the Armunia Foundation/Capo Trave Kilowatt Tuscany Residence Center; with the support of the Piemonte dal Vivo Foundation as part of the Lavanderia a Vapore project.
Thanks to Giulia Polenta, Beatrice Biondi, Attila Faravelli, Lindu Gozzo, Annamaria Pieretti, Matteo Barp, Virginia Rubini, Federica Jannuzzi, Natália Trejbalová, Elena Vastano, Stefano Tomassini, and Alessandra Simeoni.
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