Chara Kotsali — IT’S THE END IF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE

Chara Kotsali, a choreographer and performer from the contemporary Greek scene, has long developed a body of work in which movement, voice, and language intertwine as tools of political and perceptual inquiry. With IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE, she stages a choreographic marathon for three women that traverses history, memory, and the present without ever settling into a stable line of meaning. The dancing body remains the core focus, while sound and speech operate as compositional materials that fracture the idea of progress as a linear and reassuring trajectory. On stage, the past seems to lie ahead and the future behind: the performers push their physical and emotional resources to the limit, shaping a choreography that holds together individual and collective bodies, pleasure and propaganda, advancement and collapse. Rather than narrating a crisis, the work inhabits its emotional landscape, placing under tension what we still, stubbornly, call progress.