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.
MovingTowardsZero
Cosima Grand, Jessica Huber
rocking together
To mark its 30th anniversary, Tanzhaus Zürich is hosting the MovingTowardsZero festival (26–28 June 2026): a utopian space where art, activism and community come together. rocking together is part of MovingTowardsZero.
Cosima Grand and Jessica Huber introduce rocking together as a jointly developed movement practice/embodied session: we begin by rocking our own bodies and gradually introduce the rocking and swaying of others’ bodies. Over time, an interplay develops between the roles – we rock and are rocked, we hold and are held. The movements are mainly performed whilst sitting and/or lying on the floor. The practice involves physical contact with others.
Context: Rocking and swaying can have a calming effect on our nervous system. And it can simply be fun. As adults, we are hardly ever rocked anymore and are rarely held outside our primary relationships – we want to create space for both and practise taking on both roles.
Photo Michelle Ettlin
Jessica's artistic work glides back and forth between different performance worlds: while her early projects were primarily choreographic in nature, her more recent productions vary in terms of form and expression. What the choreographer's works have in common, however, is the search for a practice and aesthetic of sharing and exchange and the lived desire for collaboration. Accordingly, Jessica has made collaborations with other artists her primary working method. Formats such as walks, residencies and workshops are an essential part of her creative process.
Jessica trained in contemporary dance, choreography and dance & theatre studies at the Laban Centre/City University London. Together with Karin Arnold, she is a founding member of the performance collective mercimax.
She has been part of the Tanzhaus dramaturgy pool on a mandate basis since 2020. In 2025 she would like to merge her dramaturgical and artistic activities within the house more closely and also share insights and practices from her research series rituals of tenderness.
Dates / Booking
17:45 — 19:00
- Pay as much as you want
Bühne 2
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
8037 Zürich
- Duration: 1h 15m
- Swiss German, English
- Wheelchair accessible
- No prior experience required
- Mainly sitting and lying down
- Please wear comfortable clothing