Dancer, photographer, art lover

Professional dancer of contemporary dance, traditional Mozambican dance and Afro Swing.

Nyles Cossa is a professional dancer with extensive experience in the world of dance and art.

From 2017 until today he collaborated with several

choreographers such as Horacio Macaucua, Idio Chichava, Pak Ndjamena, Eugenio Macuvele, Lulu Sala, Edvaldo Ernesto, Vitor Hugo Pontes (Portugal), Rubens Oliveira (Brazil), Linda Wardal (Sweden) Chester A. Whitmore (U.S.A) and João dos Santos Martins (Portugal), Stephen Rolf Bongarçon (Reunion Island), Jenny Major (Denmark) Also participated in numerous international festivals, both as a teacher and as a performer, including KINANI festival (Maputo), THEATER FORMEN festival (Germany), Herräng Dance Camp (Sweden), ONE DANCE WEEK (Bulgaria).

Nyles Cossa started his career in 2000, dancing Makwaela in her neighborhood church.

He immediately fell in love with dance and the arts and continued to dance in various cultural associations. His professional career began with participation in various festivals and workshops across the country, deepening traditional dance and starting to dance Afro Swing with Associação Hodi, of which he is an active member as a dancer, musician and dance teacher.

EDGE OF STAGE

Stephen Bongarçon proposes at the end of his show a time for informal exchange dedicated to the cause that inspired the play, the Chagos and their Displaced residents.

The opportunity here, to trace through dialogue the history of exiles from the Chagos Islands, at the center of a human and political dispute for

nearly 50 years. A population which, after

experiencing the pangs of poverty in the suburbs of the capital of Mauritius, is still trying to blend into the meanders of modern "civilization", which lived almost in autarky on the Diego Garcia islands, Perros Banhos and Salomon before being forcibly removed

For this new creation, Stephen Bongarçon brings to the stage the history and the voices of the Chagos people, driven out to the Seychelles and Mauritius in 1972 by the British army. The archipelago, located in the heart of the Indian Ocean, was the last British colony at the center of a dispute for almost 50 years.

By drawing inspiration from this struggle, the choreographer would like to help restore a little of their humanity to this people. He uses dance to talk to us about the uprooting of bodies, the need to find his original soil. T Déplacés is a work that expresses the desire to restore dignity to this exiled people: the right to return to live on their native islands.

SKIN

Humans live, create, touch through the skin. It becomes an organ for learning about the world, each other and unity between people. This is the first tactile layer, the opportunity to «hear» and feel the other person.

On the one hand, skin color is unimportant because human beings are not defined by it. On the other hand, you may want to endlessly appreciate the beauty and distinctiveness of its color, with its subtle shades and textures.

Skin

Choreographer Victoria Archaya Russia

Music Skin :Vasily Peshkov

Performers:

Adi Gross Israel

Maria Fernanda Losada Argentine

Theodore Alexander IUSA

Nilegio Cossa Mozambique

Bienvenue Zambeleogo

Burkina Faso

The production explores body contact as an integral component and fundamental value of human life. Touch is essential to social communication in exchanging energy and emotion, but it is often minimized in modern society. It is being replaced by remote methods of information exchange, online communication. Due to the pandemic, live communication and physical contact between people has significantly decreased. We realized the great value of touch and tactility in communication between people. Active development of social networks creates the illusion of communication - momentary, easy and accessible. not requiring serious emotional and psychological costs. We can communicate with friends from different countries without leaving our homes. The pandemic has shown us the undeniable significance of live communication. emotions, and physical touch in our lives and how they shape our social nature. The production choreography is an endless poetry of architecture created by the dancers as they interact. manifested in sculptural pauses and mise-en-scene The main motive, embodied in plastic is the unity of human beings with each other.

Photography

The history of photography begins as a child watching my uncle doing his work of photography, as I grew up it disappeared, I focused on dancing, but the passion for photography continues to exist within me, me and lack of courage, also not having the material to make progress with the dream of photography, but sometimes I took pictures with the camera of my phone and it made me want to work with photography, and also not having professional training was a of the things he left will shape me from this dream, In 2019 in the time of covid-19 that desire reawakens in me, one day I cleaned everything I had on my cell phone and went out into the streets I started to photograph and edit on my camera phone I started to to gain strength when my friends started taking pictures so I wrote on Facebook to ask for help to whoever had the camera to help me, the great luck a friend called ☆Matten☆ who we were together in Härrang for two years saw the publication sent a private message I said I have how I can send you and I said I have this camera for 10 years and I will help you with greater pleasure and then the story began that I share the history of Mozambique or the world in the format of photography I say I am cultural Activist photography is baptized by Nylesphotograhy

I have found passion in social intervention photography and I feel like I am making a positive impact through my work. It's important to remember that photography, like any other art form, is subjective and open to interpretation, so it's natural to encounter individuals who may not view your work in the same way that you do.

What's important for me is continue to focus, grow as a photographer and find ways to express myself through art. Keep pushing myself creatively and exploring new ways to use photography as a tool for social change. And remembering that the true purpose in life may not be something that you discover overnight - it's a journey that involves learning, self-discovery, and growth. Is my passion and purpose, and I will continue to make a positive impact on the world around you.

Get In Touch

Phone

+258847823733

Email

nylescossa28@gmail.com

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