Chara Kotsali ΙT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE
Greece
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A dance marathon that traverses the tangled relationship between individual and collective history.
The end of the world has not yet come, and certainly not the end of history.
Using dance, sound and poetry, Greek choreographer and performer Chara Kotsali grapples with the notion of progress as the most exhausting linear narrative. Searching for an alternative, IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE speaks to a history shaped by revolutions (technological and social) that never fully happened.
Three female dancers interact on stage with the past that lies ahead of us and the future we have left behind. They engage in a dance that exhausts their emotional and physical resources. The piece explores the ambivalent relationship that we have with history, both as individuals and as a collective. It is a work about progress as destruction, and about dances of fun, pleasure, and propaganda.
Header image description: Three female dancers march, proudly waving flags with their right hands. The flags are white with block text on them, evoking the show title “IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE”. The dancers wear casual clothing and perform in front of a metallic curtain.
Header image © Pinelopi Gerasimou
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About the contender
Chara Kotsali is a dance maker, performer, and teacher based in Greece. She graduated from Rallou Manou Professional School of Dance, where she currently works as a teacher of contemporary dance. She is also a guest teacher and choreographer at Marmarinou Professional Dance School and other leading institutions.
Her choreographic works have been selected to be performed at international dance festivals including Onassis Dance Days, Aerowaves and ImPulsTanz festivals.
She explores choreography and performance through an expanded approach, involving methodologies from anthropology, documentary art, music, and other performing languages, while concentrating on the politics of sound and movement.
I wish to compose a messy kinetic and sonic chronology of the collective feeling created by launching into Space and simultaneously diving into cyberspace
CHARA KOTSALI
Chara Kotsali embodies exhaustion and loss, without weariness or surrender. GENEVIEVE CHARRAS
Kotsali’s choreography feels like a capsule rocketed in time, from a complicated past straight into a vast unimaginable future.SPRINGBACK MAGAZINE
a bitter and sarcastic commentary on the flimsiness of Western culture and capitalism.
MONOPOLI.GR
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