Choreography, performance: Chara Kotsali
Dramaturgy: Dimitra Mitropoulou
Artistic Advisor: Pericles Pravitas
Music and sound design: Jeph Vanger
Original music composition "Furiosa": Dimitra Trypani
Lighting design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Production management / touring: Delta Pi
Commissioned and Produced by: Onassis Stegi
Technical tour manager: Stavros Kariotoglou (Onassis Stegi)
Tour Coordinator: Christina Liata (Onassis Stegi)
“to be possessed ” tour is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “outward turn” cultural export program

Chara Kotsali’s 2023 dance solo is a rehearsal of demonic rituals. It premiered in March 2023 during Onassis Dance Days. In “to be possessed”, she summons spirits that haunt our language, our scriptures, our knowledge, our minds, and the material world itself.
By exploring women’s testimonies from different cultural contexts, Kotsali lets herself become a mouthpiece for these stories about demons, exorcism and the invocation of spirits. Doing so, she presents a moving body that is forever outside the self, a form of experience that calls into question the self-sufficiency and autonomy of the individual woman.
“to be possessed” experiments with the creation of rituals of remembrance and the stirring of the multiple voices that dwell within us. Kotsali indulges in the demonic as she attempts to animate the phenomena she encounters, inviting them to reveal their overwhelming yet subversive character.

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