C. Kotsali: IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE (GR)
- anjapiabiscak
- Dec 16, 2025
- 2 min read
Duration: 40 min
Contains: loud music, strobe lighting, explicit language
IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE is a dance marathon in which three women move through the layered terrain of personal and collective history. Working with dance, sound, and poetic fragments, the piece questions progress as a linear story and reflects on the emotional landscape of a present shaped by revolutions (technological and social) that never fully happened. The performers engage with a past that seems ahead of us and a future already behind, pushing their physical and emotional limits in a choreography that hovers between continuity and collapse. Their movement reveals the complex ties between individual and communal bodies, and the dances of pleasure, persuasion, and resistance that echo through time.
Blending steady flows with abrupt ruptures, the work creates a fragmented yet resonant chronology. IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE is neither a vision of apocalypse nor a longing for an idealized past, it acknowledges that the world keeps turning, and in this ongoing swirl, a gentle poetics of vertigo becomes a way to feel, to remember, and to keep moving.
Concept, Choreography, Text and Video: Chara Kotsali
Performance and Material Co-creation: Sofia Pouchtou, Christina Skoutela, Chara Kotsali
Assistant Choreographer: Vassia Zorbali
2nd Assistant Choreographer: Clara Aguilar
Sound Design and Music: Anna Maria Rammou, Chara Kotsali
Set and Costume Design: Periklis Pravitas
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Dramaturgy Consultant: Dimitra Mitropoulou
External Eye: Κοnstantina Georgelou
Trailer: Apostolis Koutsianikoulis
Photos: Pinelopi Gerasimou for Onassis Stegi
Line Production: TooFarEast
Tour Production: Chara Kotsali
Commissioned and Produced by: Onassis Stegi.
Presentation of the performance supported by: Onassis Stegi Touring Program and the company’s own touring budget.
The research for “IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE” was supported by Onassis AiR and Réseau Grand Luxe. Special thanks to TROIS C-L Luxembourg, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (Porto), Grand Studio Brussels, and L’Abri Geneva.
