IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE follows three women in a dance marathon that traverses personal and collective history. Through movement, sound, and spoken poetry, the work explores progress as an exhausting narrative.
The dancers on stage confront the past that lies ahead and the future they’ve left behind, engaging in a dance that drains their emotional and physical resources. It is a piece about the ambivalent relationship of the individual and collective body with history, about the link between progress and destruction, about dances of fun, pleasure, and propaganda.
Chara Kotsali is a dance maker, performer, and teacher based in Greece. She studied Dance, Theatre Studies, and Anthropology, and also has training in music. Her stage works include to be possessed (Aerowaves Twenty24), borborygmi (Audience Award at the Athens Epidaurus Festival), and IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE (Aerowaves Twenty26, Moving Balkans 2026).
As a performer, she has collaborated with artists such as Christos Papadopoulos, Euripides Laskaridis, Patricia Apergi, Iris Karayan, Sofia Mavragani, Tzeni Argyriou, and Ermira Goro. She also works as a movement director in theatre.
Chara Kotsali also works as a guest teacher at several institutions worldwide, as well as at professional dance schools in Greece and abroad. Her teaching practice focuses on technique, choreography, and improvisation, and is primarily aimed at professional performers, experienced movers and anyone with curiosity.The latest thematic workshop she has been working on is called “The ignorant choreographer”. Taking inspiration from Jacques Rancière’s “The ignorant schoolmaster” and Bojana Cvejic’s text “The ignorant dramaturg”, Chara attempts to approach the process of choreography as an emancipatory game of imagination and embodied knowledge.
Concept – Choreography – Text – Video Editing: Chara Kotsali
Performance – Material Co-creation:: Sofia Pouchtou, Christina Skoutela, Chara Kotsali
Assistant Choreographer: Vassia Zorbali
2nd Assistant Choreographer: Clara Aguilar
Sound Design & Music: Anna Maria Rammou, Chara Kotsali
Set & Costume Design: Periklis Pravitas
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Dramaturgy Consultant: Dimitra Mitropoulou
External Eye: Konstantina Georgelou
Line Production: TooFarEast
Tour Management: Chara Kotsali
Photos: Pinelopi Gerasimou for Onassis Stegi
Trailer: Apostolis Koutsianikoulis
Commissioned and Produced by: Onassis Stegi
Pictures: Pinelopi Gerasimou, Louiza Vradi
