Cosima Grand is a choreographer and dancer. In her artistic work, Cosima is primarily interested in the empathic potential of dance. In her practice, she explores how body movements and bodily sensations can connect people and create resonance. In her latest choreographic works, she has developed a physical practice based on rocking and trembling movements that incorporates work with the voice. Cosima completed her dance training at the CNDC d'Angers and was a member of the Cie Marchepied in Lausanne. She completed a bachelor's degree in multilingual communication at the University of Geneva. She studied theater studies and sociolinguistics at the University of Bern. Cosima collaborates and performs with Ruth Childs, Aina Alegre, Simone Truong, Chris Leuenberger, Jessica Huber, and others. Her own choreographic work includes the pieces CTRL-V(EP) (2nd prize PREMIO 2015), CTRL-V (LP) (2016), Hitchhiking through Winterland (2018), Restless Beings (2020), and things veer (2023). In 2015, she received the Culture Promotion Award from the Canton of Valais and in 2020 a Cultural Award from the City of Zurich. Cosima is an accomplice at Tanzhaus Zurich.
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Cosima Grand
Restless Beings
(If you read the following text aloud, please read it singing, rocking, shaking and/or trembling.)
They grow on a small feeling within us
they are not easy ones, but fertile ones
they have one cell or more,
they get ignored, you get bored, maybe.
Plunge into it and swim around.
Maybe take some deep breaths before.
The songs assembled here are bringing together new ways of living on a planet that has been damaged recently.
Open your pores, so long.
Simply said: Restless Beings is a piece for 5 dancers. Together they form a rocking, trembling and shaking choir. They tell of forms of coexistence between humans and non-humans on a damaged planet.
Concept, choreography, performance Cosima Grand
Dramaturgy, production creation Ketty Ghnassia
Co-choreography, performance Chris Leuenberger, Natascha Moschini, Roger Sala Reyner, Juliette Uzor
Musical score, sound Romain Mercier
Scenography Jasmin Wiesli
Costumes Nina Jaun, Anne-Sophie Raemy
Light design and technical manager Pablo Weber
Text libretto Oliver Roth
Voice coach Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
Dramaturgical production advisor Tanzhaus Zürich Jessica Huber
Mediation project Valais Mona De Weerdt
Illustrations brochure Cécile Giovannini
Production touring Antje Czudaj
Administration touring Karin Erdmann
Photos Nelly Rodriguez
Graphic design ROLI Deluxe
Co-production Tanzhaus Zürich and ROXY Birsfelden in collaboration with TLH Sierre
Co-production in the frame of the Programmers' Fund of Reso – Dance Network Switzerland, supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council
Supported by City of Zurich Culture, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich, TheaterPro Valais,
Canton of Valais, Loterie Romand, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Dance and Theatre Commission Basel