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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 dancer, lecturer at Universities, dance teacher, breaking judge, 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, currently finalizing her PhD about the dance culture Breaking.
Growing up in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Frieda Frost discovered hiphop culture in the early 2000s, 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 Köln or Oper Köln, was Factory Artist at the tanzhaus nrw (2020-2022), teached classes and workshops in informal and formal institutions like youth clubs, schools, dance schools, and universities; earning her the Digital Teaching Award for her class "Breaking for School" at the German Sport University Cologne. She is invited as keynote speaker, lecturer or scientific commeetee member for academic conferences; 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. BOTY Bgirl Battle, Eurobattle, vice-champion Germany 2007, 2019 and Morocco 2022), leading in becoming a certified judge for international breaking competitions. Today, she is judging national and international dance events (e.g. Swedish Championships, LCB Battle, Undisputed Qualifications) and is a certified WDSF judge, judging e.g. in the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris, WDSF Breaking for Gold competitions or the Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai.
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 about Breaking, it's movements and cultural influences. 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.
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.
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