“FREEDa” honors the quiet, enduring strength of a soul that continues to create through pain—a celebration of becoming whole not by avoiding our fractures, but by fully living within them.
Often reduced to an image, this performance invites us to look beyond the icon—beyond the bold colours, the corsets, the flowers—to encounter the human being who lived beneath them. A woman who navigated pain, love, isolation, humor, intimacy, longing, joy, courage, fear, and an unrelenting need to create.
Frida Kahlo was ahead of her time in many ways. She rejected norms about a woman’s role in society, what she should wear, or whom she should love. And yet, human nature and its fears reached her too, just as they reach us. We all carry fragments of Frida within us.
She was a brilliant painter whose works were confessions, confrontations, and acts of survival—the place where she told the truth about her life. She looked at herself relentlessly and dared to say: “This is who I am.”
Just as Frida gazed into the mirror, “FREEDa” becomes a mirror for us. Through it, we explore our own limits—what confines us, what sets us free, and what it means to keep living and creating when the world imposes its boundaries.
A vibrant portrait of Frida Kahlo, where fragility becomes strength and identity is rebuilt from its own cracks. Music: Ran Bagno
Video: Ambrosia
Choreography assistant: Mateja Železnik
Guest dancer: Georgeta Capraroiu (National Opera and Ljubljana Slovenian Ballet)
Soloists and the international ensemble of Sibiu Ballet Theatre
