about me



Friederike "Frieda Frost" Frost is a dancer, choreographer, cultural manager and dance and hiphop scholar based in Germany and Morocco.
She is an assistant researcher at the Cologne HipHop Institute at the University of Cologne and works as freelance lecturer at Universities, dancer and dance teacher, in (theatre) projects, as choreographer with her German-Moroccan dance companie "Cie Chara" or her German collective "nutrospektif". She is a PhD student at the Institute of Dance and Movement Culture, German Sport University Cologne.
 
Growing up in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Frieda Frost discovered hiphop culture in the early 2000s and starting break-dancing in 2002. Dancing became the focus point in her work and life. She studied sports management at the German Sport University in Cologne and worked as professional dancer and performer for (dance) theatre projects with e.g. Pottporus e.V./Renegade, Schauspielhaus Bochum or Oper Köln, teached classes and workshops in informal and formal institutions like youth clubs, schools, dance schools, and universities; e.g. with a focus on projects for girls and women. In 2020, she won the Digital Teaching Award for her breaking class "Breaking for School" of the German Sport University Cologne and from 2020-2023 she was working as cultural manager for the Goethe-Institut Marokko in Rabat, Morocco.
 
As "Bgirl Frost", her competition career led her to participate and win numerous national and international breaking events (e.g. vice-champion Germany 2019 and Morocco 2022), leading in becoming a certified judge for international breaking competitions. Today, she is judging national and international dance events and is a certified WDSF judge, judging e.g. the WDSF Breaking for Gold European Championships 2022 in Manchester or the WDSF Breaking for Gold Oceania Continental Qualifier 2023 in Sydney,  qualification events for b-girls and b-boys for the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris

With teaching beeing one of her passions, Frieda Frost developed an cultural specific teaching approach for teaching Breaking in (in)formal education settings that is influenced by her expreriences in the urban dance scene, teaching at universities, contemporary and dance theatre contexts and her sport studies background. This approach is focusing on an individual, creative and collective learning space, with re-creating the cultural spaces of urban dance like the cypher or concepts like each-one-teach-one. In 2020, she received the Digital Teaching Award of the German Sport University Cologne and recently published a bookchapter about her teaching concepts.

Frieda Frost is currently an assistant researcher at the Cologne HipHop Institute at the University of Cologne and was an assistant researcher at the Institute of Dance and Movement Culture at the German Sport University Cologne (GSU) from 2014-2018. She is currently completing her PhD. She publishes articels and contributes to books (see researchgate and publications in this blog) and established the format #hiphopstudysunday on Instagram to share (academic) knowledge on dance and hiphop culture. 
 
As cultural manager, Frieda Frost realises projects, expositions and festivals such as NADAR'ART (2022), Streetperspektif (2017) or creates and implements dance mentoring programms such as DANCE FUSION MOROCCO (2021-2022).

For references within teaching, judging, battles etc. see REFERENCES