Growing up in Pardes Hanna, Israel, he began dancing at the age of six with the Israeli folklore group Hora Pardes Hanna with choreographer Dado Kraus. Ten years later, he began volunteering at llanit, the psychiatric hospital where his mother, Ina, worked. The work group helped patients through body movement therapy.
In 1995, he began studying contemporary dance and, at the same time, started dancing with the Yehonatan Carmon Company at the TeI Aviv Opera House. He soon became a dancer in Ido Tadmor's company.
In 2000, with the support of the Municipality of Pardes Hanna, he created the dance group Fraza, whose aim was to make contemporary dance known locally. Thanks to this project, he presented his work at the Suzzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre, whose director was Yair Vardi. It was here that his work was performed for the first time.
In the same year, he began dancing for the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and later for the Vertigo Dance Company, where he discovered a new body language known as Contact Improvisation. He participated in the creative process of the Vertigo Dance Company with The Birth of the Phoenix, which is still performed today. Furthermore, as a contemporary dancer, he has the opportunity to work with several independent choreographers such as Ronit Ziv, Emanuel Gat and Yossi Yungman, among others.
In 2003, he began working as artistic coordinator and choreographer on tours in South America and Europe with the company Mayumana. In 2006, he arrived in Madrid, where he decided to settle down and resume his personal project: the Sharon Fridman Company. The company's first piece was presented at the Certamen Coreográfico in Madrid and won several awards for creation and production.
The technical basis he uses in his work focuses on the relationship between gravity and balance and is inspired by his mother, who was born with Arnold Chiari syndrome. Fridman develops a new body language: INA, Contact INcreation.
With this new language, he began a process of research into contact and how it represents us. Today, all his work is based on the INA Practice and is represented worldwide. Many pieces have received important awards, such as best performance for Free Fall (2015), best choreography for Erritu in 2019, first prize and audience award for Hasta dónde...? at the Certamen de Burgos-New York (2011) and best dance performance award at the Huesca Dance and Theatre Fair for Free Fall and All ways (2014 and 2017 respectively).
Today, a large number of companies and groups dance many of his creations, such as the National Dance Company of Spain, the National Dance Company of Paraguay, the Vertigo Dance Company of Israel, the Bora Dance Project of South Korea, the Kukai Dantza Company of the Basque Country, the Colectivo Cinético of Italy, the LaMov Company of Zaragoza, the Compagnie Jus de la Vie of Stockholm, the Bielefeld Ballet of Germany, the L'Explose Danza Company of Colombia, the COCO Company of Panama and Between heaven and earth of Jerusalem.
Since he started his personal project with the Sharon Fridman Company, he has co-produced several pieces together at the Mercat de les Flors, the Theatre of Ludwigshafen, the Autumn Festival in spring, Madrid en danza and the Auditorium of Tenerife, among others.
Today, the Sharon Fridman Company has its residency at the Teatro Francisco Rabal de Pinto (Madrid), where it carries out projects with the community and where Fridman creates her works. In recent years, she directed the 2018 Gvamin festival at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv and Danzamos Conde Duque in Madrid (2017).
In 2022, the company celebrated its 15th anniversary with the premiere of a new work, Shape on us, in which the viewer sees the fourth wall lifted to be a direct witness of a process of choreographic creation and the intense relationship between dance and life.
Fridman currently combines his work as company director with collaborations as guest choreographer, artistic director and lighting designer in various organisations. These include the works Crudo Equilibrio, created for Compañía L'Explose (Colombia), Equilibrio, Espacio Creativo Foundation (Panama), Corazón de carne, Ka'et Ensemble (Israel), Jondo, Eduardo Guerrero Company (Spain), Yarin, Kukai Dantza (Spain), Jerusalem, Theater Bielefeld (Germany) or, soon, Berro, a creation for Nova Galega de Danza (Spain) and Europa, co-directed with Luis Luque Cabrera and co-produced with Las Naves del Español, (Spain).
In September 2023, the complete version of the work Go Figure was presented, co-produced by Festival Oriente-Occidente in Rovereto (Italy).
