Ever since she was a teenager, Chara Kotsali has been terrified and fascinated alike by horror movies and their characters, above all the possessed woman, a staple of the genre. In her solo To Be Possessed, a “genealogy of the possessed”, the dancer-choreographer becomes a many-voiced mouthpiece for these “bodies that overflow”, as Kotsali calls them, “bodies that step into a danger zone and at the same time become menacing.” An ecstatic sound and movement collage of enormous technical precision exploring the subversive potential of demons.
