SANDRA

Sandra Kramerová is a dance artist of Slovak origin with international experience from Spain, The Netherlands, New York, Israel and Slovakia. While supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten within Nieuwe Makers Regeling (New Makers Scheme 2021-2023), in collaboration with Theater de Generator in Leiden, Sandra has been making strong physical work inspired by her cultural background. A recent Bogliasco fellow, Sandra currently resides in Madrid, Spain. Both as a choreographer and educator she uses dance as a tool of interdisciplinary expression and shares her artistic and teaching practice at Music conservatory Centro Superior Katarina Gurska, theater school Nave 73 (Madrid) and dance department of CREA Amsterdam (Amsterdam).

Aspiring to evoke immersive theatrical experiences Sandra works with movement, visuals and text. The latest audiovisual dance project Salto Moral (2024) parallels the development of artificial intelligence with morality and its repercussions on female emancipation with the body as a central source of power and oppression. The audience decides what moral information to feed the protagonist – Alexa – so that she becomes the most politically correct Artificial Intelligence in the world. The work is currently on tour in Spain and in The Netherlands.

Sandra’s earlier multimedia dance Body as a Weapon (2020) was listed among 5 best performances of the year by newspaper Het Parool (Dutch regional daily newspaper) and her project MAJKA (2021), in which an alien girl encounters Eastern European womanhood, was praised by critics and the public in The Netherlands and Slovakia. In her dance production Dictatorship of love (2022) Sandra questions how ideals become oppressive and how even love can turn into a dictatorship. The choreography highlights the political intensity of the female body in relationship to the beauty and darkness of mass choreographies and features local groups of women participating in the project and performances after a series of community dance workshops.

During her stay in New York, Sandra premiered her evening-length debut GAME ON! (2017) at Dixon Place and co-created the dance film LADIA (2017). LADIA, based on original stage choreography and directed by Álvaro Congosto, screened at festivals such as Cinedans and San Francisco Dance Film Festival (with awards from BRAGA International video dance festival, Festival de Corporalidad Expandida, Portland Dance Film Fest, ARTS TRIANGLE and Rollout Dance Film Festival).

Sandra’s dance work has been presented at DT Espacio Escénico, Teatro Lagrada, La Usina in Madrid (ESP), Frascati, CC Amstel, Pleintheater and Dansmakers in Amsterdam, Theater De Generator in Leiden, Schuur in Haarlem, Maaspodium in Rotterdam, Theater Kikker in Utrecht, Concordia in Enschede, Pand P in Eindhoven and Wennekerpand in Schiedam (NL), Dixon Place, BAM Fisher, Danspace Project, The Secret Theater and Bohemian National Hall in New York (US) and Nu dance fest in Bratislava and Malý Berlín in Trnava (SK).

Before receiving her MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College in NY (2016), Sandra participated in Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s International Dance Program in Israel (2010) and graduated with BA in Choreography from University of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia (2009). She also holds a 800-hour (RYT) Yoga alliance certification from Yogea Artflow Center in New York (2017) and has been teaching modern dance and choreography at CREA Amsterdam (2019-2023). She currently shares classes of Corporal technique at Centro Superior Katarina Gurska in Madrid.