Chara Kotsali - Aerowaves

IT'S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE

Greece The Twenty26

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.

Biography

Chara Kotsali is a dance maker, performer, and teacher based in Greece. She studied Dance, Theatre Studies and Anthropology, and has also studied music. She approaches choreography and performance through an expanded lens, integrating methodologies from anthropology, documentary art, music, and other performative languages, with a particular interest in the politics of sound and movement. Her practice includes writing, field recordings, and DIY sound composition.

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). She was part of the Grand Luxe Network (2023–2024), an Onassis AiR Fellow Artist (2024–2025), and is also a member of the Visiting Artists Programme 2025.

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 (2023 Greek Critics Association award for best theater choreography) and writes for yusra magazine.