Lea Kieffer is a french Berlin-based freelance performer, dancer, costume designer and scenographer. Her work explores the dialogue between imagination and physicality through the entangling of dance, bodywork, storytelling and craftsmanship in hybrid transdisciplinary formats.
Since 2020, Lea has explored the theme of mermaids with Meluzine; a mystical creature persona that breaks away from gender divisions and engages in a complex hybridization that reaches across humans and animals to include cosmic entities as well as human contaminants and toxins.
Since 2017, Lea has been developing the somatic storytelling practice Sci Fi Anatomy (SFA), closely related to themes of the mermaid and liquids which she shared at Gropius Bau Berlin, ICI Berlin, ONCE Freiburg Festival and online via Grand Re-union, Work it-out, and Operation Alien Love (OAL), FFT Dusseldorf  among other contexts.
Beside her own work, she collaborates with Rocio Marano as Los(t) Ninjas,Hanna van Der Kolk developing workshop format “STRANGE NATURE” initiated at the Field Center ,Siegmar Zacharias, Frida G. Franceschini. She worked as a dancer for Schubot & Gradinger, Jeremy Shaw, and Isabel Lewis, and made costumes and installations for Jule Flierl, Claire V. Sobottke, Cécile Bally & Cathy Walsh, Stephanie Auberville and Mathilde Monfreux among others.