The choreography begins with the scene Rousalka. Nika Stein interprets Mikhail Lermontov’s poem in Russian describing the world of Rousalka, a magical creature from Slavic fairy tales related to the mermaid. The mermaid wails, chants, whispers, and narrates. A conscious artistic choice was made to work with a Russian poem in non-Russian-speaking environments, with the intention of engaging with the audience’s emotional intelligence. The elastic bodies and faces of the dance performers do not attempt to mimic the content of the poem, rather they create a polyphonic effect by adding their own bodily and emotional layers. This is followed by an exploration of the pulsating world of marine creatures, a tribute to wetlands, the energetic evocation of a thunderstorm and, finally, a scene of calm after the rain.