Erna Fröhlich

Erna Fröhlich has a long background in dance. She trained in Gymnastics as well as in Expressive and Contemporary Dance in Cologne and Munich, before she began to study Oriental Dance in 1986.

Attracted by the beauty of that dance and music, she specialised in Raqs Sharqi as taught by the teachers of the former Suraya Hilal School and particularly by Liza Wedgwood.

In 1992 she founded her studio “Taqsim” in Munich teaching regularly classes and workshops for many years now. Since then she works together with Liza Wedgwood performing several programmes on stage as well as teaching residential courses and dance holidays in Germany and Austria.

Being fascinated by the subtle bodylanguage and the soulful expression of Raqs Sharqi it is one of Ernas main interests to  explore the dramatical potential of this beautiful dance on stage.

She created the programme “...while my soul was travelling elsewhere”, using motifs of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.
Other programmes followed using various possibilities of interaction between lyrics, poetry, music and dance.