Chara Kotsali - ΙT'S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE

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.