Artikel zu SHAKE IT!

Frieda Frost mit ihren Teenies nach expressiver Performance

Foto: Marielena Wolff

Zu dem Symposium SHAKE IT! am 23.11.2018 in der Alten Feuerwache gibt´s einen informativen Artikel in der CHOICES: "Alle Körper verdienen Liebe"

SHAKE IT! Symposium on dance, gender and bodypolitics

Foto: landesbüro tanz nrw

On 23.11.2018 i was invited as guest and workshop teacher for the SHAKE IT! Symposium, organised by Landesbüro Tanz nrw. It was a great day! The symposium started with lectures on bodypolitics and dance by Madeline Doneit, Sonja Eisman of MISSY MAGAZINE and Yvonne Hardt, Professor at the University of Music and Dance Cologne.

The lectures were followed by workshops, and i teached a class on Breaking: Herstory and Her Moves - Breakdance and Empowerment where i discussed the possibilities of empowerment for women in Breaking and the difficulties of set up structures within the scene in e.g. Breaking battles, where most times men are organising, and male judges, DJs, hosts and dancers get invited and therefore the view of the women on the dance gets hardly a voice. I pointed out the Youth Olympics with Breaking for Gold´s Bonnie & Clyde battle as one of the great opportunities of an equal space for bgirls and bboys and the problem, that the male way of dancing still refers as benchmark. 

After the workshop there was a fishbowl discussion round with the workshop teachers (Susan Bagdach, Diana Thielen, Ilse Ghekiere and myself) moderated by Dr Mithu Sanyal. It was a very intresting exchange!

After the discussion round we surprised with the freestyle performance of our girls urban dance project with Mädchentreff Alte Feuerwache, going on fron September - November 2018 and got lots of applause... (;

All in all it was a great day!

Street vs. Stage on tour with you!

This summer we had the opportunity to bring our famous Street vs. Stage concept battle to a new city! Arnsberg invited us for Kultursommer, and the MichaelDouglas Kollektiv and Viola Luba & me from nutrospektif created a special version of the battle. Everybody had the possibility to participate in two workshops - one in urban and one in contemporary dance with focus on the evening tasks -  and be selected to the final performing team in the evening. We had a great time with the participants and the evening performance was on fire!

Don´t miss the next Street vs. Stage on tour with you! at Schrittmacher Generation_2 Festival on 06.04.2019 in Aachen!

Regelmäßige Breaking Kurse in Köln!

Seit Juni 2018 unterrichte ich jede Woche Breaking (Breakdance) in der BAM SCHOOL!

Kurse: 
Mittwoch 16:30 - 17:45 (Kids & Teens)
Mittwoch 17:45 - 19:00 (Kids & Teens)
Mittwoch 19:00 - 20:15 (Adults - in Planung! Einfach die Bamschool ansprechen)

Hier ein kleines Video zu mir als Lehrerin in der Bam School:

Judge @Ground Conference #6 in Aachen

Another Ground Conference took place on 16.06.2018 and i was invited again for judging the 1vs1 Breaking, 1vs1 HipHop and Experimental Allstyle Team Battle! It was great to see the dancers taking risks and dancing free in the Experimental Battle, congratulations to the winning team from Belgium! Each team had to master tasks regarding different music, togetherness/communication with the partner, creativity with an object and more! I had fun and i want to thank ARTbewegt e.V. for the great organisation, and the other Judges Rawmantic/Keraamika and Thimoty for the nice exchange.

If you are a dancer seeking for challenges, make sure you come to the next Ground Conference! 

Workshop at the University of Münster

This friday i will be teaching a workshop on Breaking at the University of Münster.
I am very happy about the rising interest of German Universities on urban/street dances! Until today, you can only study street dances within the curricula at the German Sport University Cologne. Therefore it is great that the University of Münster decided to offer a street dance workshop as well, within the studies of Music Pedagogy.
More info here!

Interview mit Tanzweb NRW zum "cypher"

Im Rahmen des Schrittmacher Festivals_Generation 2 war auch Tanzweb unterwegs und hat Choreographen, Tänzer und Dozenten interviewt.
Auch der "cypher" Workshop hatte Interesse geweckt - Lisa Freudenthal interviewte mich zum Thema "cypher", urbanen Tanz und mehr...das Interview gibt außerdem einen Einblick in meine Forschung für meine Doktorarbeit, die ich am Institut für Tanz und Bewegungskultur an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln schreibe :) Viel Spaß!


Lisa im Gespräch mit- Frieda Frost from TANZweb on Vimeo.

Workshop "cypher" at Schrittmacher Festival 2018

On saturday, 09.03.2018, Robozee/Flying Steps and me were invited to the Schrittmacher Festival Generation_2 to teach a workshop about the "cypher". The cypher is the space were the urban dance practices take place: a circular form, created by the practicioners, and a dancer in the middle, showing her or his skills. The roles are interchangable, every participant can jump in the  middle of the circle and perform, so there is no division of the "performer" and the "audience"! Still, there are certain rules to follow if you want to jump inside this circular space called the "cypher".

The workshop focused on the "cypher-rules" and on the competences one must gain to be able to present confident in the cypher, such as improvisation skills, musicality, call & response, communication and an awaresness of the 360° circular space to dance in.

To create a real cypher-experience, we had DJ CeesStone from Holland to provide us with some fresh music! 

We had a great group of dancers and dance pedagogues joining Robozee and me on this cypher-journey, and they did great! A big thank you to Yvonne Eibig of ARTbewegt e.V. for the invitation!

Conference for Hip Hop Based Education in Paris

At the end of this month I will present my research on Breaking and the cypher as a tool for teaching and learning at the conference "Pédagogie Hip-Hop / Hip-Hop Based Education" at the Université Paris Nanterre on 29. - 30.03.2018!

The topic of hip hop as a tool for education is a very interesting and innovative subject, that is researched since many years in countries like USA, Canada or UK. To have a conference adressing exclusively the topic of education through and with hip hop will be a great chance to extend the network of hip hop scholars around Europe and other countries! I am looking forward for interesting and international lectures within the conference.

Click here for Information & Agenda

Workshop for DYNAMO at PACT Zollverein

In December 2017, Bahar Gökten & me from nutrospektif were invited to PACT Zollverein in Essen to teach workshops for the young dancers participation at the DYNAMO Junge Tanzplattform NRW 2017. Our subject were urban/street dances on stage, and we focused on movements from Breaking and the possibilities how to work within movement research, improvisation, space and time. It was fun to work with these young and motivated dancers from different schools and dance theater projects, especially with the members of the ENSAMPLE collective from Pottpours e.V.

The beautiful pictures are from Sabine Große-Wortmann ©nrw landesbuero tanz.