From Gravity to Grace

Anna Karenina Lambrechts goes in search of roots and identity in her first dance solo From Gravity to Grace. By exploring different dance styles, she fathoms the multiplicity and diversity of her roots. The soundscape was designed by Elko Blijweert and perfectly complements Anna Karenina's powerful movement language. Through an immersive mix of haunting sounds and pulsating tones, music and body merge. Luc Schaltin creates a piercing lighting design that highlights this emotional quest. Through understanding and acceptance, it moves towards an ultimate transformation.

From Gravity To Grace reveals a unique and highly personal dance language that transcends the boundaries of styles, cultures and time. Krump, traditional Filipino dance and contemporary dance are interwoven and unravelled. They are taken out of their traditional frameworks and juxtaposed against each other. In the dialogue that emerges between these styles, Anna Karenina creates an entirely new movement language that reflects her multifaceted identity.

In her dance, Anna Karenina moves between the earthly and the heavenly, where attachment and detachment alternate. She seeks ways to embrace the various dance forms she carries within her, telling a story of inner strength, connection and transformation. This performance is an ode to a mixed identity, and how a diversity of roots may first and foremost be a great strength.

Anna Karenina Lambrechts is a dancer from Leuven. Since graduating from Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Tilburg /NL), she has been working mainly professionally in Brussels. In 2017, she joined Anton Lachky Company and collaborated in three productions: Cartoon, Family Journey and Ludum. She then joined Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus and appeared in: Go Figure Out Yourself, Traces, Hands do not touch your precious Me and Scattered Memories. From 2021, she will be looking into her own work which focuses on the search for one's own identity and finding ways to express one's deepest identity. She is also immersing herself in Krump, an energetic and expressive urban dance form in which raw emotions find expression in a powerful way, and is part of the krump collective Drickx Konzi. Her first solo performance From Gravity To Grace will premiere on 3 April 2025 at STUK, Leuven.