Annamaria Ajmone
La notte è il mio giorno preferito
La notte è il mio giorno preferito deals with our relationship to the ‘Other’ in a meditation about animals and the eco-system in which they live. Imagine the animals and the plants, the organic and the inorganic, melting into one in the dark of a nocturnal forest. Landslides and screams disrupt the silence, signals and mysterious perceptive organs inspired by various species keep everything together. Here we are in a forest that is neither unspolied nor idealised, in a forest that technonaturally includes the traces of its dwellers and leaves its mark on them.
Annamaria Ajmone’s dance performance is guided by the practice of philosophical tracing as described by French author Baptiste Morizot in his essay Sur la piste animale (‘On the Animal Trail’): By trying to follow the traces of wild animals we can assume their perspective, understand their possible actions, following the ontological position of perspectivism as phrased by anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. The title La notte è il mio giorno preferito (‘Night is My Favourite Day’) is taken from a letter written by American poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) and refers to darkness as the space of an absent presence in the animal kingdom – a place of intuition.
Annamaria Ajmone is an Italian dancer and choreographer who holds a degree in contemporary literature. Her works have been presented at numerous festivals, in museums and galleries across the world, such as Santarcangelo Festival, La Biennale Danza (IT), Public Fiction/Night Gallery (USA), Palais de Tokyo (FR). In 2015, she received the Danza&Danza Award. Together with Sara Leghissa she coordinates Nobody’s Indiscipline, an open source platform for art practices, and Nessuno, a practice of gathering and celebrating with a focus on performance, dance, visual art, and discourse experiments. Annamaria Ajmone is an associated artist of Triennale Milano Teatro.
*The performance on Fri, March 3rd will be followed by an artist talk (moderation: Veza Fernández).
Credits
Concept, dance Annamaria Ajmone Set design, styling, images Natália Trejbalová Research, dramaturgical collaboration Stella Succi Music Flora Yin Wong Costume design Jules Goldsmith Technical direction, lighting design Giulia Pastore Engineering on tour Elena Vastano Voice training VEZA, Paola Stella Minni Online graphic design Giulia Polenta Production management Associazione L’Altra
A production by Annamaria Ajmone in co-production with FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts, Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia, Torinodanza, Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia/Festival Aperto, Lac Lugano Arte e Cultura, Azienda Speciale Palaexpo – Mattatoio | Progetto Prendersi cura. Supported by Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni, Fondazione CR Firenze, Oriente Occidente, far° festival des arts vivants Nyon. Annamaria Ajmone is an associated artist of Triennale Milano Teatro 2021–2024. Funded by MiC – Ministry of Culture (Italy).
The shows in Vienna are kindly supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura Vienna.
Dates & Tickets
*The performance on Fri, March 3rd will be followed by an artist talk (moderation: Veza Fernández).
March 2023
Choose your price €22 / €16 / €11
Choose your price €22 / €16 / €11 / *The performance on Fri, March 3rd will be followed by an artist talk (moderation: Veza Fernández).
brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
Downloads
imagetanz 2023 Programmfolder (PDF)
