Anna Karenina Lambrechts - From Gravity To Grace

During her residency in STUK, Anna Karenina Lambrechts investigates her own, unique dance language that forms a pertinent artistic form of expression of her personality. With a scala of dance styles like krump, contemporary dance and traditional Filipino dance she looks for ways to encompass the dance forms she carries within her.

Urban and contemporary dance, Western and Eastern culture and elegance and rawness are held under scrutiny, juxtaposed and put out of their boxes. Through these encounters, a new dance language arises that crosses styles, continents, cultures and time.

This pre-research will lead to a new solo creation named From Gravity To Grace. It sees Anna Karenina take the audience on an emotional journey in which she tries to understand her own roots, communicate them and look for enlightenment. It's a journey between the earthly and heavenly, connection and disconnection, the different phases of her 'being'. This physical dance solo is an ode to how a mixed identity can be a powerful force? From Gravity To Grace premieres April 3 2025 in STUK.

TEAM / CREDITS

choreography, dance Anna Karenina Lambrechts dramaturgy Greet Van Poeck movement coaches Hendrickx Ntela, Mike van Alfen light design Luc Schaltin, sound design Elko Blijweert distribution Get Down Agency co-production De Singel, STUK residencies STUK, De Singel, fABULEUS, Corso, Ultima Vez, VIERNULVIER, GC Het Huys, Het Oude Badhuis, De Ruimte, RADAR administration STUK with the support of Mestizo Arts Platform & WIPCOOP, RADAR, fABULEUS, Danspunt, Stad Leuven

Anna Karenina Lambrechts is a dancer from Leuven. Since graduating from Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Tilburg /NL), she has been professionally active mainly in Brussels. In 2017 she started at Anton Lachky Company and worked on three productions: Cartoon, Family Journey and Ludum. After that she worked with Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez and performed in: Go Figure Out Yourself, Traces, Hands do not touch your precious Me and Scattered Memories. From 2021 onwards she focuses on her own work, where searching for her own identity and finding new ways to express your deepest identity are key. Next to that, she works with Krump, an energetic and expressive urban dance form the expresses raw emotions in a powerful way, and she is part of krump collective Drickx Konzi. Her first solo performance From Gravity to Grace premieres on 3 April 205 in STUK.