Cosima was born 1987 in Leuk (VS), Switzerland, and lives in Zurich. She graduated from Centre nationale de danse contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers, France, under the direction of Emanuelle Huynh. Grand completed the Bachelor in multilingual communication at the University of Geneva and studied theater studies and sociolinguistics at the University of Berne. Grand collaborates and performs with Aina Alegre, Simone Truong, Chris Leuenberger, Lucie Eidenbenz, among others
Her own work covers T-R-A-N-S (Cosima Grand and Pia Campos, 2011), Me, myself and I (Cosima Grand and Sabrina Zimmermann, 2013), BeMyselfAndDie (Cosima Grand and Davide Prudente, 2013, rewarded with the prize Fondation Bea pour jeunes artistes), CTRL-V (EP) (second prize PREMIO 2015), CTRL-V (LP) (2016) and Hitchhiking through Winterland (2018).
Her work was shown at Kondenz Festival Belgrad, Festival June Events Paris, ROXY Birsfelden, Festival de la Cité Lausanne, Festival frisch eingetroffen Mannheim, Théâtre Sévelin 36 Lausanne, Tanzhaus Zürich, Dampfzentrale Bern, Südpol Luzern, Das Tanzfest in Berne and Basel, Festival Tanz in Bern, Festival Antigel Genf, Tojo Theater Bern, Kellertheater Brig, Oh! Festival Wallis, Festival Forum Wallis and Scènes Valaisannes, among others
Cosima is co-founder of Residenz Tanz Leuk.
In 2015 she was awarded the Canton of Valais' cultural prize.
Sharing
Cosima Grand, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, Dance
Sharing: ChoreoLab
ChoreoLab is a cooperation between the dance department of the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK and Tanzhaus Zürich. The idea is for the BA Contemporary Dance students to gain insight into the work of contemporary choreographers who are currently closely associated with Tanzhaus. This year, Cosima Grand is imparting dance-artistic working methods and looking into possible forms of presentation of contemporary dance during the two weeks of the workshop.
The work-in-progress sharing will be followed by a short audience discussion.
Director ChoreoLab Cosima Grand
Assistant Lisa Lareida
Production BA Contemporary Dance, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK and Tanzhaus Zürich
Photo Maria Cheilpoulou
Zurich University of the Arts offers three dance programmes: The course in Classical Academic Dance, leading to a Federal Certificate of Proficiency EFZ at apprenticeship level, the Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance and at Master’s level there are two programmes – Choreography and Teaching and Coaching Dance Professionals.
