“CHORA” (from the Ancient Greek χώρα - meaning “space,” but also a generative emptiness, a womb-like ground of origin) is rooted in the idea that emptiness is not absence, but beginning. It is a space that exists before form - a living container, a fertile silence from which everything emerges.

Here, emptiness is primordial. It exists before movement, before language, before identity. It is the first condition - the place where everything begins. “CHORA” invites us to return to that beginning, to listen to what exists before meaning, and to recognize that we are formed not only by what we do, but also by the spaces within us, the silences we carry, and the unseen forces that surround us.

Emptiness here is not hollow; it is charged with possibility - like the air before a storm, the stillness before a breath, the silence in nature before dawn, a blank page before writing, or the pause between heartbeats. Space itself becomes presence: in the pauses, the silences, the spaces between us, lives something greater. A field of creation. A source we return to every time we exhale, every time we yield to gravity. In this pace, we don’t just move - we remember. Space becomes a partner, holding memory, tension, and potential.

The new dance piece “CHORA" by Sofia Nappi and her company KOMOCO explores emptiness as a tangible presence - around us, between us, and inside us - continuing one of KOMOCO’s fundamental fields of research.

Emptiness is approached through listening: beginning with the forces of breath and gravity, allowing space to move us as much as we move through it. From this listening, rhythm appears.

Fragile gestures grow into larger volumes. Small pauses expand into collective flow. What seemed empty reveals itself as charged with life, connection, and story.

“CHORA” unfolds as a fundamental human cycle of return and becoming.