Canti fossili

Annamaria Ajmone

Canti fossili by Annamaria Ajmone is one of two commissions in the Dialoghi section. The performance explores the relationship between dance and voice, understood as a living, relational material.

Featuring: Annamaria Ajmone, Veza Fernandez, Emma Saba, Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher, and Toni Steffens.

Annamaria Ajmone

Annamaria Ajmone is a dancer and choreographer whose research centres on the body as a mutable, malleable material. Her work unfolds across different formats and durations and emerges through collective processes. She has presented her work at international festivals and institutions including La Biennale Danza (Venice), brut Wien (Vienna), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Triennale Milano, and Santarcangelo Festival. She received the Danza&Danza Award for Best Emerging Contemporary Performer in 2015. From 2016 to 2023 she curated Nobody’s Indiscipline, an independent platform for the exchange of practices and research, and from 2021 to 2024 she was an associated artist at Triennale Milano Teatro.

Veza Fernández

Veza Fernández is a Vienna-based dance, voice and performance artist. Her practice explores the poetic and political dimensions of the voice as a space of relation and transformation. Working across singing, writing, dance and speech, she creates polyphonic and sensorial performances. She holds a degree in Choreography from DAS, and her work has been presented at venues including brut Wien, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sophiensaele Berlin, Gessnerallee Zürich, de Singel Antwerp, and La Casa Encendida Madrid.

Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher

Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher is a multidisciplinary artist born in South Korea, raised in France, and based in Paris. With a background in circus, dance and acting, he has collaborated widely in the performing arts since 2009. His solo RUINE toured across Europe (2019–2024). Under the name HA KYOON, he also performs an electronic punk live set and composes music for live performance and theatre.

Toni Steffens

Toni Steffens is an artist, performer, and acupuncturist trained in dance and choreography, with a BA from the SNDO and an MFA from the Sandberg Institute. Their practice approaches movement as embodied knowledge and a tool for community, survival, and political imagination, challenging Cartesian dualism. Their work has been presented internationally, including at the Palais de Tokyo and the Van Abbemuseum. In 2024, they completed acupuncture training with a thesis on Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and participated (2023–25) in Planetary Poetics, focusing on climate collapse and art–activism intersections.

Emma Saba

Emma Saba is a dancer and choreographer whose practice develops at the intersection of movement, voice and self-hypnosis, in the desire to trace a feminist archaeology of the spectacular. Her work draws on her classical musical training at the Bologna Conservatory and unfolds through solo and collective formats. She completed her studies at La Manufacture (Lausanne) in 2021 and became associate artist at L’Abri – Geneva. She is a member of the foulles collective and has presented her work at venues including Pavillon ADC Geneva, Onassis Stegi Athens, and Festival Dias de Dança Porto. In 2024–2025 she was artist-in-residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, supported by the Grand-Luxe network. She is a PREMIO 2025 finalist.

Stella Succi

Stella Succi works across publishing and the visual arts. Trained as an art historian, she is currently coordinator of Il Tascabile, an interdisciplinary online magazine published by Treccani. She collaborates as a researcher and dramaturg with artists and collectives, including Annamaria Ajmone and Altalena, and works with least, a Geneva-based association supporting co-creative ecological art practices.

Fabio Quaranta

Fabio Quaranta is a fashion designer and researcher based in Milan. His practice investigates clothing as a cultural and political device, questioning systems of production, authorship and value within the fashion industry. Through collections, exhibitions and research-based projects, he develops garments as tools for critical reflection and social positioning. His work has been presented in independent and institutional contexts, including fashion shows, exhibitions and educational platforms, and is closely connected to teaching and knowledge transmission.