Friederike Frost , Motions on the Floor

Studio 8

Friederike Frost ist in einer Tanzposition abgebildet, in der sie sich mit dem rechten Arm und Bein vom Boden wegdrückt. Sie hat längere blonde Haare in einem Zopf und ihre linke Hand ist an ihrem Kopf. Das linke Bein ist über das rechte übergeschlagen. Friederike trägt ein schwarz-weiß gestreiftes Hemd und eine Hose im selben gestreiften Stil. Abgebildet ist sie draußen auf einem Dach, da Satellitenschüsseln im Hintergrund zu sehen sind und eine Wäscheleine im Bild ist.

Motions on the Floor is an artistic research project that explores the choreographic practice, identity and working methods of urban choreographers. The project focuses on the artist’s own practice as a choreographer, as well as on exchanges with urban choreographers from Germany and Lithuania. The core elements are observation, studio work, theoretical research and reflection. Through movement research, writing, drawing, documentation and interviews with artists, the project examines how choreographic identity emerges, is negotiated and becomes visible in performance contexts through choreographic works.

The open studio invites you to learn more about the project, its questions, initial findings and materials, as well as about artistic research as a form of connecting theory and artistic practice.

Open installation (freely accessible):

Sat 11.4., 14:00-17:00 and from 22:00-01:00
Sun 12.4., 11:30-14:30

The results of the research will be on public display as an installation during these periods.

Exchange with the artist:

Friederike Frost is there in person:

Sat 11.4., 15:30-17:00
Sun 12.4., 12:30-14:00

Friederike Frost is a dancer and choreographer, a scholar of dance and sports science, and a fellow of the Kunststiftung NRW. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the German Sport University Cologne on the aesthetics of the dance culture known as breaking. In her interdisciplinary academic work, she writes about transcultural influences on breaking movements, gender negotiations and belonging, and explores call and response between dance and beatmaking through artistic research. As a freelance dancer and choreographer, she is part of the nutrospektif collective and, with her urban dance company Cie Chara, creates performances that have been shown at events including the Tanz NRW Festival, the On Marche Festival for contemporary dance (Morocco), the Urban Essentials Dance Festival (Lithuania) and the Schouwburg Kortrijk (Belgium). She is a jury member at international breaking battles such as the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and a founding member of the European HipHop Studies Network.

The project is taking place in cooperation with the Centre National de Danse Pantin, Paris, the Institute for Dance and Movement Culture at the German Sport University Cologne, the dance company LOWAIR and Jonas Frey. It is funded by the Kunststiftung NRW.