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things veer 


4/5 June, Theater Roxy Birsfelden




Four performers tread invisible paths. They oscillate and tune into each other and move in a cosmos of vibrating relationships. A kind of emotional formalism serves as the basis for their movements.

With things veer, Cosima Grand continues to pursue her interest in the intertwining of humans and non-humans. Her last work Restless Beings was earthbound and inspired by microbes and bacteria. things veer now looks upward: The piece zooms out and embraces the dark, penetrating planetary systems, galactic and cosmic spheres, from external movement to movement within, from pulsation to scream.



DATES

7 November 23 Premiere, Tanzhaus Zürich
9–12 November 23 Tanzhaus Zürich
13 January 24 ZeughausKultur Brig
16–18 January 24 Théâtre du Crochetan Monthey
4/5 June 24 ROXY Birsfelden



Conzept & Choreography: Cosima Grand Co-Choreography & Performance: Hanna Hedman, Nina Richard, Emma Saba, Roger Sala Reyner Dramaturgy: Jessica Huber Composition: Demi Jakob Szenography: Ceylan Öztrük Light Design: Nina Langosch Costumes: Anne-Sophie Raemy Vocal Coach: An Chen Outside eye: Mona De Weerdt Production: Antje Czudaj Administration: Karin Erdmann Dramaturgical adviser Tanzhaus Zürich: Jessica Huber Coproduction: Tanzhaus Zürich, ROXY Birsfelden, Théâtre du Crochetan Monthey Supported by: Stadt Zürich, Kanton Wallis, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Migros Kulturprozent, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, SIS  Photos: Nelly Rodriguez



Documentary Choerografers at work!

(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 bring
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.




DATEN

14.10.20 Premiere, Tanzhaus Zürich - Postponed
15./16./17./18.10.20 Tanzhaus Zürich - Postponed
18.10.20 Tanzhaus Zürich -
Postponed
4./5./6./7./8.11.20 TLH Sierre - Postponed

17./18.3.21 ROXY Birsfelden - Postponed


7.5.21 ZeughausKultur Brig (Tanzfest CH) - NEW PREMIERE

12./13.6.21 Dampfzentrale Bern

16./17./18./19./20.6.21 Tanzhaus Zürich

24./25.6.21 Südpol Luzern

7./8./9.10.21 TLH Sierre


Concept, Choreography & Performance: Cosima Grand Dramaturgy & Production Creation: Ketty Ghnassia Co-Choreography & Performance: Chris Leuenberger, Natascha Moschini, Roger Sala Reyner, Juliette Uzor Musical Composition & Sound: Romain Mercier Scenography: Jasmin Wiesli Costumes: Nina Jaun, Anne-Sophie Raemy Light Design & Technical Direction: Pablo Weber Text Libretto: Oliver Roth Vocal 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 Toruing: Karin Erdmann Graphic Design: ROLI Deluxe Co-production: Tanzhaus Zürich & 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, Schweizer Kulturstiftung. 
Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, TheaterPro Wallis, Kanton Wallis, Loterie Romand, Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung und Fachausschuss Tanz und Theater BS/BL



«Hitchhiking thorugh Winterland» is a journey through inner states. In a language of reduced movement, performer Cosima Grand passes through stages ranging from joy to hopelessness and despair.
The piece is a contemporary response to Franz Schubert’s song cycle «Winterreise» («Winter Journey») and a pop music roadtrip by musician Romain Mercier. Like Schubert, Grand explores the theme of the lonesome journey.
What emerges is the fragile path of a polymorphous body that is both in unity with and in opposition to its sonic surroundings and the space it inhabits. An ambivalent trip through the conflicting area between the within and the without, the familiar and the foreign, the secret and the sinister.


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The False Suns

El Dorado


DATES

7.11.18 Premiere, TLH Sierre
8./9./10./11.11.18 TLH Sierre
5./6./7./8./9.12.18 Tanzhaus Zürich
27./28.3.19 ROXY Birsfelden
7.12.19 Theater am Gleis Winterthur
5.3.20 Festival Artdanthé, Vanves
1./2./3./4.4.20 ADC Genève - CANCELLED


Concept/Choreography/Performance: Cosima Grand Dramaturgy: Désirée Meul Music/Sound: Romain Mercier Scenography: Jasmin Wiesli Light Design: Pablo Weber Costumes: Anne-Sophie Raemy Production: Bettina Tanner Co-production: TLH Sierre, Tanzhaus Zürich, ROXY Birsfelden

Supported by: TheaterPro 
Wallis, Loterie Romand, Kulturförderung Kanton Wallis, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Schweizerische Interpreten Stiftung SIS

Graphic Design: ROLI Deluxe Photos: Valérie Giger 

«Words decompose in my mouth like mouldy mushrooms. Constantly, someone is using a gesture as a
sledge-hammer to crack a nut. Constantly, someone is taking a phrase and is hitting someone else
with it in the face, so hard that it hurts. Don’t you know what I mean? Don’t you understand? You should hold your hands over your ears, if my body is speaking to you too loudly. Stante pede I claim:
Hips don’t lie!»

Words turn into beats; normativity turns into a soundtrack. Body and language are no longer considered
as separate: Spoken language is generated in the body — and our bodies are defined by language. The piece CTRL-V (LP) reconsiders the relationship between spoken language and its physicality. With
persistent repetition, the two performers deal with the power relations between language and body.


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DATES

15./16./17./18./22./23./24./25.09.16 TLH Sierre
27./29./30.10.16 Tanzhaus Zürich
16./18.02.17 Dampfzentrale Bern
03.06.17 Festival JUNE EVENTS, CDC Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson Paris
23.06.17 Südpol Luzern
09.08.17 Untimely Festival Teheran
30.09.17 Zeughaus Kultur Brig
01./02.12.17 ROXY Birsfelden

18./19.11.20 Lokremise St.Gallen, TPO

27.11.20 Tanzhaus Zürich, TPO


PRESS

Regard sur..., Annabelle Pirlot
Danser—canal historique, Gérard Mayen
The ARTchemists, Nicolas Villodre
Der Bund, KulturStattBern, Roland Fischer
P.S., Thierry Frochaux
NZZ, Lilo Weber
Züritipp, Eva Hediger


Concept, Choreography and Performance: Cosima Grand Co-Choreography and Performance: Milena Keller Audio: Aldir Polymeris Music: Julian Sartorius Light Design: Pablo Weber Scenography: Jasmin Wiesli Costumes: Anne-Sophie Raemy Dramaturgy: Désirée Meul, Oliver Roth Production: Rabea Grand Outside Eye: Johanna Hilari Co-production: TLH — Sierre, Tanzhaus Zürich 

Supported by: TheaterPro Wallis, Loterie Romand, Kulturförderung Kanton Wallis, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia, Migros-Kulturprozent und Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Burgergemeinde Bern Gastaufenthalt im Rahmen des Residenzprogramms: schloss bröllin e.V., gefördert durch das Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und den Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald With thanks to: Dampfzentrale Bern

Photos: Valérie Giger, Marc Andereggen Video: Michelle Ettlin