COSMORAMA

TIR Danza Associazione Teatrale

COSMORAMA

concept and choreography Nicola Galli 
performers Nicola Galli, Rafael Candela 
dramaturg Giulia Melandri 
management and promotion Margherita Dotta 
production LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, TIR Danza 
residency Margine Operativo, supported by Rete Ecoritmi, Fondazione Roma Tre Teatro Palladium, Eticae, Margine Operativo, with the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Culture – Next Generation EU  

duration 40 min  

COSMORAMA is an itinerant performance designed for open, natural spaces, led by two moving bodies engaged in a mimetic exploration and mapping of landscape elements. Shifting between close-up and panoramic views, physical proximity and distance, the journey invites the senses into an exercise of perception that unfolds in lines, vanishing points, and counterpoints. This path opens up a movement vocabulary that intercepts invisible and alternative dances. Subverting the hierarchy of the gaze and recognising dance as a phenomenon of the world, COSMORAMA offers a collective ascent to rediscover how we live, observe, shape, and dance the landscape. 

Nicola Galli

Nicola Galli (born 1990) is a choreographer, dancer, and lighting and costume designer whose practice centres on movement research. His work takes shape through actions and devices ranging from choreography to performance, installation, and graphic-visual design. His multi-disciplinary approach treats the body as the radiating centre of an artistic discourse, exploring movement as a hybrid landscape of knowledge. Since 2010, he has developed a personal choreographic inquiry into the deep relationship between humans and nature, analysing the concepts of ‘layering’ and ‘landscape’. Since 2014, his work has been supported by TIR Danza.

TIR Danza

TIR Danza is a production organisation operating in the field of contemporary and research-based dance. It supports and accompanies choreographers by enhancing their creative identities and works. The organisation develops its projects through a collective framework, pooling the diverse expertise and professional experience of its artistic direction team: Fabio Acca, Massimo Carosi, and Pietro Mazzotta. TIR Danza views curation as an ongoing analysis of the relationships between artistic languages, subjects, audiences, and production structures. Through deep cultural research, it aims to consolidate the ‘new Italian dance’ scene in its most dynamic and original expressions. TIR Danza has been recognised since 1991 by the Italian Ministry of Culture and since 1996 by the Emilia-Romagna Region. The artists currently supported by TIR Danza are Megumi Eda, Greta Francolini, Enrico Frisoni, Nicola Galli, Vincent Giampino, Elia Pangaro, Manfredi Perego, Silvia Rampelli, and Elisa Sbaragli.