Caroline Bowditch dances with Frida feeling

Choreographer Caroline Bowditch didn’t get Mexican artist Frida Kahlo until she discovered she too was disabled, she tells Ellie O’Byrne.

FRIDA KAHLO, the renowned Latina artist, is remembered for her mercurial beauty, her distinctive surrealist style, her fiery relationship with her husband and fellow artist, Diego Rivera, and her profoundly personal approach to her art. Yet we rarely remember her as a disabled artist.

Caroline Bowditch, an Australian-born choreographer and performer, sets out to reclaim Kahlo as a disabled artist in her highly personal work of dance theatre, Falling in Love with Frida.