Lea Blau creates an enchanting choreography based on the balkan mythical creature Kikimora and stories from her own life. The complicated family dynamics and fairy tales have uncannily much alike… so she forges them into a dance, a performance and a rite. Intertwining folk songs, elements of contemporary dance, performance and sculpture, she creates a landscape where the everyday and the mythical meet. Wounds sing haunting melodies. And what do girls inherit..?
Kikimora is a bitch! She is gently caressing her child… or is it her mother…? Cruel cruel mad creature she lives inside the walls. She protects the curse she wants to eat she dances in front of the mirror she twirls hangs on the chandelier. She comes out to play she makes a big mess she laughs and the whole house shakes dust flying in the air, or is it powder…?
Screeching, singing, sweating, bleeding loving tender loving hard demanding attention
pushing teaching showing how to play with fire
OOpsyyyyy the doll’s hair is g000ne : -)
we are so cl0se you know s0 tender we scratcHHh each others eYes out !
we gently caressss we fiGht wE comPete who is beTter wHo is preTtier who is lovelier (its me)
and we plaYYYYYY so much !!! and sometimes beat the shit out of each other
and we love each other foReVer :****
we love ouR moMma t00 and sOmetImes taKe her instRumEnts sometimes she is veeery mad you know
aNd then we siNg together a lullaBy for anotHeR girl not yet b0rn:
“My mother is a bitch like me. Apples fall close to the tree.”
The truth is… Kikimora can be good or bad based on the behaviour of the house owner.
Lea Blau is a performance artist from Rijeka, Croatia. After professional training in acting, she expanded her practice through workshops and masterclasses in physical theatre and dance, and later specialized in Contemporary Performance and Theatre Making at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (CPPM), where she earned her MA degree. At the heart of her practice lies an exploration of decay, ritual, and transformation as fertile states of intensity and meaning. Through her work, the body becomes a vessel for the contradictory powers of femininity — dark, vulnerable, and transformative — while channeling personal and ancestral narratives into immersive live performances.
Author: Lea Blau
Performers: Lea Blau, Seren Oroszvary, Ben Osborn
Sound design: Ben Osborn
Dramaturge: Nele Tiidelepp
Visual artist/scenography: Madlen Hirtentreu
Scenography assistent: Natali Mällo
Costumes: Sorcerer collective
Light design: Leon Allik
Make-up artist: Karoliina Villem
Graphic designer: Risto Kalmre
Project manager: Kerly Ritval
Support: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn City
Residencies: Massia, Copperleg, Banja Luka, Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Premiere: 27.10.2025
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