Anna Borodikhina

NIEMANDSLAND. Searching for a home, in a place where you don’t feel at home.

Anna Borodikhina raps, sings, plays and talks about how she moves in a world in which she does not feel herself at home. Anna’s Tatar Muslim mother was born in East Berlin, the daughter of an army officer. Her father grew up in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, also Anna’s native country.

Her parents fled to Belgium with her as a 3-year-old for political reasons. NIEMANDSLAND is a personal story about farewell and acceptance, about refugees and migration, identity and invisibility. It draws you in and takes you back and forth between the past and the present to land on Anna’s inner melody while dancing. NIEMANDSLAND won the Antwerp Bijou prize amid the pandemic and lock down.

Anna Borodikhina is a stage poet, actress and musical performance artist. She performs spoken word and makes beats with a loop station and her voice on which she sings and raps. She collaborated in theater projects of Tutti Fratelli, Fresh Violence and won the national music competition Violencia. For 7 years she has been climbing various stages with her spoken word, music or theater. She teaches creative writing, performance, beatmaking, theater and rap workshops.

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