Annamaria Ajmone is a dancer and choreographer. She holds a degree in Modern Literature from the Università Statale di Milano and trained as a dancer at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan.
Her research is defined by a constant attention to the qualities of movement and states of presence, conceiving choreography as a situated, collaborative, and embodied practice grounded in listening to space, others, and the material conditions of performance. Her work branches out across different formats and durations, following a dual trajectory: on one hand, the creation of works for theatrical and institutional contexts; on the other, the development of experimental formats and site-specific compositions. At the centre of her practice is the body understood as malleable and mutable matter, continuously transformed through encounter, while the relationship between bodies and spaces constitutes a central compositional concern: space is a non-neutral, active, and generative element of the choreographic process.
For her productions, Ajmone works with collaborators with whom she shares the creative process, generating collective performances in which it is difficult to identify a single authorship of the artistic work.
Her works have been presented at international festivals, theatres, and exhibition spaces, including Torino Danza, La Biennale Danza (Venice), Santarcangelo Festival, Public Fiction (Los Angeles), brut Wien, Bit Teatergarasjen (Bergen), FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts, Festival Aperto (Reggio Emilia), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Pinacoteca Agnelli (Turin), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), MAMbo (Bologna), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), and Istituto Svizzero (Palermo, Rome), as well as numerous other international festivals and institutions.
For Matera European Capital of Culture 2019, she created the choreography for the opera Cavalleria Rusticana, directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti and produced by the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
Among her main awards: Premio Movin' Up (2017), a research grant within the Crossing the Sea programme (2019), Premio Danza & Danza as Best Emerging Contemporary Performer (2015), and Premio DNA/Fondazione Romaeuropa (2014).
She is the founder and president of the association L'Altra, a company funded by the MiC – Ministry of Culture, through which she promotes artistic and curatorial projects and conducts knowledge-transmission activities through workshops and residencies. She is among the organisers of Nobody's Indiscipline, a platform dedicated to the exchange and sharing of artistic practices.
From 2021 to 2024 she was an associate artist of Triennale Milano Teatro. In 2026 she is invited to the Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2026, as part of the exhibition Con te e con tutto by Chiara Camoni, with a new choreographic work.
Email:
Annamaria Ajmone
annamaria.org@gmail.com
Artistic accompaniment and distribution:
Alessandra Simeoni
posta@alessandrasimeoni.net
Organization and administration:
Francesca d'Apolito
laltrassociazione@gmail.com
