"For Girls Only" event is a three-part artistic activity:
I. "Oh! By a little hair" - performative stand-up about sexuality, puberty and ovulation
II. "Red River" - a poetic-visual-musical performance
III. "River of Blood" - visual arts workshop
Creators, production: CHOREA Theatre
Idea, producer: Ola Shaya
Illustration: Czarli Bajka
I. Stand-up "Oh! By a little hair"
Direction: Daria Kopiec
Dramaturgy: Magda Fertacz
Costumes: Marta Góźdź - El Bruzda
Cast: Małgorzata Lipczyńska
Duration: 30 minutes
II. Performance "Red River"
Direction, costumes, stage design: Daria Kopiec
Choreography: Urszula Parol
Dramaturgy: Justyna Wencel, Daria Kopiec
Music: Aleksandra Gronowska
Masks, stage design: Anastasia Rydlevskaya
Cast: Maja Caban, Dorota Porowska
Duration: 45 minutes
III. Workshop "River of Blood"
Leaders: Aneta Stępień-Proszewska, Justyna Wencel
Duration: 60-80 minutes
Premiere: 30-3.08.2025, CHOREA Theatre, International Theatre Festival Retroperspektywy
Duration: 2,5 hour
Viewers' age: girls 10+, accompanied by their close-ones
I. Stand-up "Oh! By a little hair"
“Oh! By a little hair” is a hairy stand-up, reeled in by a lock of hair that everyone talks about in whispers. The first pubic hair will tell you what it's like to witness the greatest chaos in the history of the human body - the first menstruation. She was there when the hormones decided to have a party and no one knew where the tampons were hidden. She has watched parents try to explain something they themselves don't fully understand. But she knows the subject, because who better to tell you about puberty than someone who has seen it all from the front row? It's going to be funny, honest and without being overly dramatic.
II. Performance "Red River"
“Red River” is a feminine circle of fairytale storytelling, celebrating female cyclicality. A theatrical journey of initiation, entwined on what is sacred and profane in the theme of female blood. The performance is an invitation for girls and women to be present together, tenderly, in experiencing what is alive in us women in this theme.
III. Workshop "River of Blood"
We invite you to come together - as Mother with Daughter and Daughter with Mother - in closeness, attentiveness and the joy of creating and being together.
Creating together an amulet of strings, threads and elements of nature such as woods, shells and pebbles, braiding the intentions of girlhood and feminine power, recognising the path of femininity, the newly emerging one and the mature and established one - you will explore your personal relationship with cyclicity and monthly blood. Working creatively together, you will immerse yourselves in the feminine “River of Blood” and see each other in its current, allowing you to recognise the nature of the transformation that you both - Mother and Daughter - are experiencing here and now.
The amulet can become a visual trace, a souvenir, a shared object of power between Mother and Daughter, carrying the memory of your time of closeness, your relationship with menstruation, the living story of the femininity of each of you.
