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.
Cosima Grand
Zeit Labor
In the Time Labs, Cosima Grand opens up her research on the subject of time.
In dialogue with invited artists and together with dramaturge Mona De Weerdt, they explore the question of how other temporalities beyond the standardised clock can be conceived and embodied – such as the time of waiting, longing, mourning or pain, but also the time of plants, animals, stones or temporal processes such as erosion, glacier retreat and species loss.
They are interested in how we can experiment with a different way of being in time between acceleration and standstill: collective changes of pace in which perception, body and technology enter into a relationship – neither romantic deceleration nor efficiency mantra, but a way of being in time characterised by presence and connectedness.
In the Time Lab, Cosima Grand and Mona De Weerdt would like to share questions and materials from their research and, together with the participants, also explore physical practices of experiencing time.
Künstlerische Leitung, Konzept, Choreografie Cosima Grand
Konzeptuelle Mitarbeit, Dramaturgie Mona De Weerdt