FRIEDA BK GERSON
APPEARANCE ON EARTH
1984 in San Francisco, USA
CIRCUS & THEATER DISCIPLINES
fixed trapeze, multi-ropes, rope
Viewpoints, masked theater
TECHNICAL SKILLS
rigging: working at heights, including rope access
calculation and rigging of circus apparatus
TEACHING
State Diploma of Circus Pedagogy - France (Diplôme d’État de professeur de cirque)
DIRECTING & DRAMATURGY
2025
2023 - 2025
2019 - 2022
2020 - 2022
2022
2021, 2022
2018, 2020 - 2021
2021
2017
Director of Roots / Routes, a participatory and transdisciplinary creation with the Ampersand Variations collective, exploring interconnection and our relationships to place, for LUGA - Luxembourg Urban Garden (LU)
Creation in progress. Performances : 22 May, 29 May, 5 June, 18 October 2025
Author and director of insomnia: dreams for the end of the world, a trans·disciplinary show with multiple exposures, on the themes of liminal spaces, metamorphosis and identity
Production in progress, first chapter planned for 2025
Director and co-author of PARASITE, a circus-theater-dance-biology piece about parasitic manipulation and free will
Coproductions: Théâtre National du Luxembourg, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU)
Playwright for Desire Lines, a site-specific participatory performance for Esch2022 - Esch-sur-Alzette European Capital of Culture 2022 (LU)
Directed by Claire Thill with the Ampersand Variations collective
Co-direction with Claire Thill of the four audio walks created for the Desire Lines project for Esch22 (LU / FR)
Director of two site-specific performances as part of the Desire Lines trilogy: Trajectoires Éphémères, carte blanche for the Night of Culture in Esch-sur-Alzette, and Desire Lines x Acoustic Picnics, for the city of Dudelange (LU)
Directing of Pixie Pixel, with actress Claire Thill for the Cité de l'Image Clervaux: interactive guided tour of the photographic exhibitions by the character Pixie Pixel (LU)
Co-director of Naufratopia, with Yaëlle Antoine: site-specific end-of-studies show from the Le Salto circus school (FR)
Director of Dinner Cabaret for Circus Kathmandu: contemporary and social circus show created in collaboration with the artists (Nepal)
Director of Dinner Cabaret for Circus Kathmandu: contemporary and social circus show created in collaboration with the artists (Nepal)
OUTSIDE EYE
2024 - 2025
2023 - 2024
2020 - 2021
ongoing since 2016
Outside eye for Le Cabaret de la mort, a burlesque documentary show on the cabarets of yesteryear, by the Cie Etincelles (FR)
Directed by Rosabelle Selavy
Outside eye for Le cimetière des éléphantes, a dance and physical theatre piece, by the Léguacie company (FR)
Co-outside eye for Bête, a circus and street show by the Corps Caverneux company (FR)
Outside eye within the Collectif en Cours, a transdisciplinary artistic research laboratory (FR)
STUDIES
2025
2015, 2017, 2024
2021
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015 - 2016
2010
2003 - 2004
New magic : Magical Writing (Magie nouvelle : Écriture magique), CNAC – Centre national des arts du cirque (FR)
Suzuki and Viewpoints with the SITI Company, a physical theatre ensemble, in their Fall Training Program, Skidmore Summer Intensive (USA), and Brussels Intensive (BE)
Circus dramaturgy, CNAC – National Center for Circus Arts (FR)
Artistic lighting, Philippe Decouflé (LU)
Viewpoints with Mary Overlie (ES)
Suzuki with Kameron Steele (ES)
State diploma of circus pedagogy (Diplôme d’État de professeur de cirque), from CNAC, ENACR, and the Académie Fratellini (FR)
Atelier Mask Movement Theater: masked theater performance and mask creation, with Matteo Destro, Paola Coletto, Ned Brauer, and Alay Macazaga (IT)
Rigging and work at heights, including rope access and circus apparatus satety calculations, AERISC training / Thomas Loriaux (FR)
Professional training: trapeze, dance, movement, improvisation, acting at Espace Catastrophe (BE)