Productions

Kaja Lindal’s and Mari Mägi’s interactive labyrinth play “Stickleback” is based on Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Story of a Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was”. It is a folktale about a boy who does not know what fear is. He therefore sets out to discover it and in the process defeats many evil things like wolfs, ghosts and even devil himself. But only bucketful of cold water with the sticklebacks in it emptied over him makes him shudder.

Life without a fear is not complete. Fairy tale’s main character discovers how situations he sees awaken no feelings in him. On the other hand unfamiliar situations create fear in him and he meets his own Shadow.

Since it is an interactive labyrinth play, it will be performed in Kiek in de Kök museum’s Bastion Passages in the belief that bastion passages give the right aura to the play.

Choreography/dance: Kaja Lindal and Mari Mägi
Stage Designer: Kristel Maamägi
Composer: Lauri-Dag Tüür
Technician: Rene Jõhvi
Photographer: Ahto Meri
Premiere: September 13th, 2012

Kaja Lindal graduated from Tallinn Ballet School and Tallinn University choreography department. She has worked in Vanemuine Theatre ballet company, and currently she is a freelance choreographer and a dancer. Her production “Kiri maalt” (“Letter from the Country”) received the Philip Morris Dance Award in 2004. Her recent works include: “Opus Tempus” (2009, with Mari Mägi), “Ballroom for Beginners” (2010, choreographer Jenni Kivelä) and “You, Me, and Everyone We Know” (2010, choreographer Ina Stockem), “Two Women in the Kitchen (to say Nothing of the Banana)” (2010, with Mari Mägi)

Mari Mägi graduated from Tallinn Ballet School and studied physical theatre in School of Stage Arts. She is a member of Cantabile 2 – one of the most well-known Scandinavian visual and physical theatre companies based in Denmark. Mari works closely together with Kitt Johnson, she has created three solo performances and taken part in various artistic projects all over Europe. Over the past years Mari has extended her work to teaching and worked in Estonia, Mexico, US and Denmark. Her recent works include: “Opus Tempus” (2009, with Kaja Lindal) and “Two Women in the Kitchen (to say Nothing of the Banana)” (2010, with Kaja Lindal)