Collaborations: Co-director of robinrobin.ch and deRothfils, Fhunyue Gao, DANCE DIVINE, Claudia Bossard, Peeping Tom, Elisabeth Weiss, Andy Besuch, arp: (Julia Reist), Marie Gyselbrecht, Mohamed Toukabri, Jorge Guevara, Gao/Kacirek, Nina Stadler, Romy Springsguth,Yara Bou Nassar, Paed Conca, Moritz Alfons, Giulin Stäubli, Matthias Günter, Yannick Mosimann, Anne Welenc, Annina Machaz.
Shown and Performed at: Dachstock Reitschule Bern, BIG Festival Genève, Sägezahn Festival Vienna, Dream City Festival Tunis, Münchener Volkstheater, Volkstheater Wien; Deutsches Theater Berlin, Ballhaus Ost, Decoratelier, Cafe Centraal, Beursschowbourg, Kiosk Radio, Tour Vagabonde Lugano, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Nederlands Dance Theatre NDT; Theater Basel; Roxy Theater Basel; Ballhaus Ost, Berlin; Station, Beirut; Espace Libre, Biel, Cinedans Dance onScreen Amsterdam
- Fröhlich works in a long term collaboration as video artist and sound designer with the theatre director Claudia Bossard. Latest works are shown in Deutsches Theater Berlin (BARACKE, Rainald Goetz 2023), Volkstheater München (Feeling Faust 2022), Volkstheater Wien (In den Alpen / après les alpes, 2022, Elfriede Jelinek, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Dreckfutmetzger (Lydia Haider 2021), Bunbury Ernst sein is Everything, (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
With Fhunyue Gao she initiated ROBIN ROBIN, a virtual and analog platform on which they experiment excessively and unconventionally with sound, scenic installations, choreography, themes and formats. www.robinrobin.ch Together they are on an intense research about how to be a not only a user of contemporary medias but becoming a creater.
Fröhlich is the cofounder and longtime co-artistic director of the dance theater collective deRothfils with whom they toured internationally and realized dance performances and films till 2017. Her film directorial debut they keep disappearing was in the official selection of Cinedans Dance on Screen Festival Amsterdam.
She realised the music clips
Loneliness and Transatlantic Flight for Odd Beholder. The latter got nominated for the BMVMA 2022 - Bewegungsmelder Video Music Award.
- Fröhlich works in a long term collaboration as video artist and sound designer with the theatre director Claudia Bossard. Latest works are shown in Deutsches Theater Berlin (BARACKE, Rainald Goetz 2023), Volkstheater München (Feeling Faust 2022), Volkstheater Wien (In den Alpen / après les alpes, 2022, Elfriede Jelinek, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Dreckfutmetzger (Lydia Haider 2021), Bunbury Ernst sein is Everything, (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
Press voices about Annalena Fröhlich
"A truly remarkable detail of the production lies in Annalena Fröhlich's video work.
... The constellative combination of theatre, words, music and filmic montage reveal an antagonism at the heart of both pieces: the scenic Alpine idyll, waved through by merry skiers, oscillates ever more strongly between a mythically overformed world of life and an economically controlled systemic world.
In terms of film poetry and montage, this effect is created by superimposing planetary-looking objects.
The perspective of time is successfully undermined and a cosmic space is created that connects past and future.
Thus the evening, especially through its intermedial superimposition of drama and film, leaves us with an image of perpetually repeating catastrophe."
in den Alpen / apres les alpes Volkstheater wien / Neue Wiener Theaterkritik feb. 2023
«Ein wirklich bemerkenswertes Detail der Inszenierung liegt in Annalena Fröhlichs Videoarbeit. ... Die konstellative Verbindung von Theater, Wort, Musik und filmischer Montage machen im Herzen beider Stücke einen Antagonismus offenbar: Das landschaftlich Alpenidyll, durchwedelt von vergnügten Skifahrer*innen, oszilliert immer stärker zwischen mythisch überformter Lebens- und ökonomisch gesteuerter Systemwelt.
Filmpoetisch und montagetechnisch wird dieser Effekt durch die Überlagerung von planetarisch
anmutenden Objekten erzeugt. Die Zeitperspektive wird gelingend ausgehebelt und ein kosmischer Raum geschaffen, der Vergangenheit und Zukunft miteinander verbindet.
So hinterlässt der Abend, besonders durch seine intermediale Überlagerung von Schauspiel und Film, ein Bild der sich immerwährend wiederholenden Katastrophe. ...» zu in den Alpen / apres les alpes Volkstheater wien / Neue Wiener Theaterkritik feb. 2023
Transatlantic flight video clip odd beholder
«In the video, which was directed by Annalena Fröhlich, who also happens to play the main character, we see a chain-smoking stewardess dancing something of a jagged, spasmodic flamenco. It’s a powerful and hypnotic performance that simultaneously evokes famed directors Almodovar and Lynch.» the big takeover©
Interviews
«In der Lücke liegt die Möglichkeit zur existenz.»
Preview to SONDER at der Bund
«Alles brüllt nach Spass. Und dahinter verblöden wir.»
Preview to PARK at der Bund
