Author: Kristin Fredricksson

Kristin Fredricksson is a performer, puppeteer, theatre maker, Feldenkrais practitioner and academic. After twelve years training, performing and making work in France, Japan and Portugal she returned to the UK in 2008 and founded Beady Eye Theatre. Recently her work has focussed on multimedia autobiography and toured to the UK (Barbican), Germany (Ruhrfestspiele) and the Netherlands. She is halfway through an AHRC funded PhD at Royal Holloway on somatics and performance. She wants to make a piece with and for babies and children next. Her daughter was born in August 2013.

Website: http://Www.kristinfredricksson.mfbiz.com

3am, a visit

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Notes on motherless mothering. It has been very hard to write this. As if there is no energy left for it. My first night with my daughter it is just the two of us. I hold her all night. I … Continued

Cooking Ghosts

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In 2011-12 I made a show about my mother. It didn’t start that way, but her story took hold. She committed suicide in 1988, when I was 15. I hedged around the subject matter for a long time but finally … Continued