Annamaria Ajmone
I pianti e I lamenti dei pesci fossili
24-25/05/2025, Cagliari
Annamaria Ajmone
24-25/05/2025, Cagliari
At the blurred boundary between organic and inorganic, between life and non-life, the fossil is a material and poetic testimony to the passing and layering of time.
Weeping and Lamenting Fossil Fish attempts to build relationships between immeasurably distant and different bodies and times, mourning the eternal cycle of the transformation of matter, life and death, in the context of the Sixth Extinction.
The possibilities of relationship are explored by the dancers’ bodies through two interfaces: the skin or membrane, which acts as the motor of movement by connecting the inside and outside of the body; and the air, which is traversed by their voices and transformed into a “space before any location”.
The performance takes the form of a progressive layering of bodily and vocal practices that recalls the very structure of the fossil.
Dance and voice: Annamaria Ajmone, Veza Maria Fernandez
Set and images: Natália Trejbalová
Research, dramaturgical collaboration: Stella Succi
Clothes: Fabio Quaranta
Lighting design: Elena Vastano
Sound set consultation: Attila Faravelli
Web project: Giulia Polenta
Organisation: Francesca d’Apolito
Diffusion: Alessandra Simeoni
Production: L’Altra Association
Co-production: Triennale Milano Teatro; Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia; Festival Aperto/Fondazione i Teatri Reggio Emilia; Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni; Snaporazverein; Short Theatre.
In collaboration with: Dialoghi – Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin 2022 – 2024; within the project residenze coreografiche Lavanderia a Vapore; with the support of Primavera dei Teatri.
Company financed by MiC – Ministry of Culture.
Associated artist Triennale Teatro Milano 2021-2024.
