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“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.

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Assistant choreographers: Mateja Železnik, Sabrina Rinaldi
Original music: Ran Bagno
Lighting designer: Andrej Hajdinjak
Costumes: Suzana Krapež Ermers și Kjara Wurst
Text: Kjara Wurst și Marcela Fossati
Voice: Marcela Fossati
Video projection: Ambrosia

Photo credit: Aljoša Rebolj

Vocal production: Giacomo Buonafina

Manager: Ovidiu Dragoman

Ballet masters: Sabrina Rinaldi, Adela Floricioiu, Răzvan Iacob

Repetiteur: Barry Meijer

Technical staff: Bogdan Prisecaru (technical director), Horia Suciu (light master), Liviu Cornea (sound master), Stepan Dragoman, Dragoș Elvădeanu, Mario David, Rareș Man, Eusebiu Șchiopu (machinists)

In the leading roles:
Frida: Georgeta Capraroiu special guest of the Slovenian National Opera and Ballet Ljubljana
Young Frida: Tara Darlami (Sibiu Ballet Theater)

Musicians:
Viola and violin: Galia Hai
Cello: Hilla Epstein
Guitar: Idan Armoni

Production: Sibiu Ballet Theatre, House of Culture of the Municipality of Sibiu