Chara
Kotsali
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20.08 4:30 - 6:30 PM & 21.08 2:15 - 4:15 PM
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​Chara Kotsali will guide a workshop inviting participants to explore tools of movement, sound, and dramaturgy developed during the research and creation of her solo to be possessed. Through guided improvisations and writing tasks, the group will explore playful strategies of ‘possession’ as a way to question selfhood and authenticity. Participants will be invited to experiment with embodying sound and text, channel unheard voices, and move together in shared exploration.
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- bio -
Chara Kotsali is a dance maker, performer and teacher based in Greece. She graduated from Rallou Manou Professional School of Dance, where she currently works as a teacher of contemporary dance, along with Marmarinou Professional Dance School,while she has been a guest teacher and choreographer in Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Theater Studies and a master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, as well as being trained in music.
She explores choreography and performance through an expanded approach,
attempting to involve methodologies from anthropology, documentary art, music, and
other performing languages, while she is particularly concerned with the politics of
sound and movement. Her practice includes writing, field recordings, and DIY sound
composition. Her work has been presented in venues in Greece and abroad, while she
has been selected as one of the twenty24 aerowaves artists.
In March 2023 she presented her first solo choreographic work, to be possessed, in the framework of Onassis Dance Days, and is currently touring in festivals and venues
across Europe.The piece was selected as part of the Aerowaves twenty24 works as
well as [8:tension] – Young Choreographer’s Series at Impulstanz Festival in 2023,
where it received and award and honorary mention from the Young Choreographers
8:tension jury. She is the supported choreographer Onassis Stegi for 2023-2024 as
part of the Grand Luxe Network, developingher new research, and Onassis Air Fellow
Artist for 2024. On July 2024 her second work, borborygmi, premiered at the Athens
Epidaurus Festival, and received an audience award.
As a performer, she has collaborated among others with Christos Papadopoulos,
Euripides Laskaridis, Patricia Apergi, Iris Karayan, Sofia Mavragani, Tzeni Argyriou,
Argyro Chioti, Simos Kakalas, Sofia Paschou, Dimitra Trypani, Ioanna Angelopoulou, Ermira Goro, Aliki Kazouri, Thomas Moschopoulos, Aliki Kazouri, Apostolia Papadamaki, Michalis Konstantatos, Medie Mega, Artemis Lampiri, Margarita Trikka, Vahid Evazzadeh, Angela Brouskou, performing both in Greece and abroad. She was cast in the film Suntan by Argyris Papadimitropoulos.