Francesca Frewer is a contemporary dance artist and Feldenkrais® practitioner living as a grateful guest on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Francesca sees the moving body as a process of perpetual, multiplicitous becoming. This informs the work she creates, her performance and teaching practices, and her work in the Feldenkrais Method® — supporting and empowering individuals in continual learning and self-discovery through embodied somatic practice.
Francesca has performed in Vancouver and internationally in works by artists such as Daina Ashbee, Company 605, EDAM Dance, Emmalena Fredriksson, Company Saint Genet, Future Leisure, and Evann Siebens, among others. Her own creative work has been presented by various venues and festivals including The Scotiabank Dance Centre, Left of Main, New Works, PushOFF, the rEvolver Theatre Festival, the Festival of Recorded Movement, and PAUL Studios Berlin. Francesca also co-produces the itinerant interdisciplinary arts showcase Here For Now, and the underground performance venue Boombox.
Francesca’s creative work draws on a range of influences including deep explorations in movement and embodiment, contemporary theatre, literature, and critical theory. Frequently collaborating with Erika Mitsuhashi, she creates performance works that are dynamic, engaging, and unsettling, spanning across disciplines while remaining firmly grounded in embodiment and presence. Improvisation is crucial in her practice as she seeks to develop strategies to support a maximum of freedom in the body.
Francesca is a graduate of Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) and Kelowna Feldenkrais Teacher Training. She also studied English Literature at Simon Fraser University, and contemporary dance with Modus Operandi in Vancouver, where she now teaches.