It's the end of the amusement phase

A noise manifesto for the ruins of tomorrow.

In a dance marathon unfolding across the historical continuum, three women move between personal and collective memory, between the past that still lies ahead of us and the future we have already left behind. Focusing on the dancing body and using sound and poetry as choreographic materials, It's the end of the amusement phase confronts the idea of progress as the most exhausting of linear narratives. In the aftermath of a technological and social revolution that never truly happened, the performance traces an emotional history of the present.

This performance is neither another apocalyptic prophecy nor a nostalgic longing for an idealized past. Rather, it acknowledges that the experiment has, fortunately, failed. The end of the world has not yet arrived, and neither has the end of history. In this suspended moment of falling, the poetics of vertigo emerges as the performance’s most fragile and tender gesture.

"It’s the end of the amusement phase could unapologetically be called a noise manifesto, creating the kind of whirling nausea that’s so typical of our devastating times. A carousel of feelings, facts, images, parade on stage, at times marching to their ridiculous glory, at times defeated yet withstanding, making the performers look like uber-marionettes in this puppetry of absurdity. Cheerleaders of menacing optimism, crushing a birthday cake, covering themselves in body paint, like charlatans in a hyper-nothing realism, they delve into a choreography which becomes a synecdoche for chasing our own tales. 

If history repeats itself like a farce, then this performance reads the disarming farcical potency of history with courage, pausing our own dark present for one moment to breathe, even though the dancers are left breathless, maybe ascertaining one’s human limits or as Kotsali fiercely recites: ‘Unable to land, unable to take off. So, I pray for a crash in my cyber rabbit hole.’"

From the media: Anastasio Koukoutas, Springback Magazine