Tremble. Touch. Feel if the stone is a stone or an alien. Roll. Harmonise with the chemicals. Transform. Vibrate. Blend the human with your olfactory organs. Breathe.

Aliens embody the threatening – the absolutely other – the alien, the incomprehensible, the feminine, wilderness, chaos and the monstrous! Their bodies guard the boundaries of the possible and threaten all order. In COSMICBODIES, seven alien bodies move from their own inner world into outer space – until Outer Space and Inner Space merge.

COSMICBODIES is a dance piece for people with and without visual impairments and integrates an artistic audio description. After BLUE MOON and WITCHES, it is the third work by Ursina Tossi from »EXCESSIVE SHOWING you can only dismantle the master’s house with the monster’s tools!«, a choreographic series of critical queer-feminist perspectives on the constructions of femininity and monstrous bodies in the context of mythology story(s) and pop culture.

(c) Alexandra Polina
(c) Alexandra Polina

COSMICBODIES thus not only becomes an impressively precise danced body image deconstruction, but is also a dramatically narrated, philosophical science fiction adventure that works great with eyes closed: an exciting story about the search for a body that is no longer human.

Robert Matthies (Taz)
(c) Alexandra Polina

CREDITS

CHOREOGRAPHY AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Ursina Tossi

DRAMATURGY
Zwoisy Mears-Clarke

CO-CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCE
Anand Dhanakoti, Camilla Brogaard, Damini Gairola, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Huen Tin Yeung, Lisa Rykena, Ursina TossiSOUND:
Johannes Miethke

STAGE
Hanna Lenz & Anja Zihlmann

COSTUME
Nina Divitschek & Daniela Dreissigacker

LIGHTS
Lars Kracht

ARTISTIC PRODUCTION & PRESS
STÜCKLIESEL

ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE
Nona Siepmann

PHOTO
Alexandra Polina

DIFFUSION
LEAD Productions (Uta Engel & Lea Connert)

Tour Dates

March 2022 | BallhausOst Berlin

Mai 2022 | Kampnagel Hamburg

December 2022 | TanzFaktur Cologne

(c) Silviu Guiman

SUPPORT

by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg – Behörde für Kultur und Medien, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, der Stadt Köln und Huckepack Umzüge.