Tremble. Touch. Feel whether the stone is a stone or an alien. Roll. Harmonise with chemicals. Remain asymmetrical, but find order. Transform. Vibrate. Speak planetary languages. Breathe. Confuse the ‘human’ with your sense of smell.

In COSMIC BODIES, seven dancing bodies draw on the horror and science fiction genres, scientific discourse, pop and subculture to develop an intimate body language. The images of the piece thus move through the space-time of the resonant inner world of one’s own body to the resonant outer space. Outer and inner space tilt and invert into each other, with the memory of our mother’s advice finding itself in photons heading for black holes. Frictions, conflicts and potentials for new bodies and new behaviours in the relationship between these bodies arise. From this earthly and ‘human’ past, rapidly multiplying polybridal monstrous bodies emerge with new abilities, protective mechanisms, constellations, functions, body parts, extensions and movements, a kind of cosmic political humanoid subject.

COSMICBODIES is a dance piece for people with and without visual impairments and incorporates artistic audio description. Following ‘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, histories and pop culture.