Patricia Bardi

     Patricia Bardi is a dance-voice artist, choreographer and bodywork specialist originally from New York and based in Amsterdam.  She teaches and performs internationally throughout Europe and USA and maintains a private practice working with children and adults in Amsterdam.  She is a founding member of the School for Body-Mind Centering (USA) and Chisenhale Dance Space, London and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with ISMETA.      Since 1992 she is the founder/director of the Certification Program in Vocal Dance & Voice Movement Integration centered in Amsterdam and recognized by ISMETA  - International Somatic Movement Education &Therapy Association.      She has developed and taught Organ Rebalancing - a professional bodywork training program at Rudolf Merkel, MD’s, School for Cranial Sacral Osteopathy in Zurich. She has a degree in psychology from the City University of New York and five years experience working in psychiatric facilities and therapeutic centers.      She has conducted research in India on North Indian vocal music and has toured extensively presenting her work at international festivals, universities and theater schools throughout Europe, North America and India.  She has received a London Arts Choreographer Award.      Patricia has collaborated with many dancers, actors, musicians and poets.Most recently she has performed with Felicity Provan in the Music & Dance series  at the Bimhuis  the leading jazz & improvised music center in Amsterdam..  Collaborations include Tangle a Vocal Dance and Music performance with Alex Maguire, pianist and Coalescence a Voice and Movement performance with Makoto Matsushima, principal performer with an internationally acclaimed dance theater company from Tokyo.       In 1987, she founded the Rocca Project an annual summer program for interdisc More...

     Patricia Bardi is a dance-voice artist, choreographer and bodywork specialist originally from New York and based in Amsterdam.  She teaches and performs internationally throughout Europe and USA and maintains a private practice working with children and adults in Amsterdam.  She is a founding member of the School for Body-Mind Centering (USA) and Chisenhale Dance Space, London and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with ISMETA.

     Since 1992 she is the founder/director of the Certification Program in Vocal Dance & Voice Movement Integration centered in Amsterdam and recognized by ISMETA  - International Somatic Movement Education &Therapy Association.
     She has developed and taught Organ Rebalancing - a professional bodywork training program at Rudolf Merkel, MD’s, School for Cranial Sacral Osteopathy in Zurich. She has a degree in psychology from the City University of New York and five years experience working in psychiatric facilities and therapeutic centers.
     She has conducted research in India on North Indian vocal music and has toured extensively presenting her work at international festivals, universities and theater schools throughout Europe, North America and India.  She has received a London Arts Choreographer Award.
     Patricia has collaborated with many dancers, actors, musicians and poets.Most recently she has performed with Felicity Provan in the Music & Dance series  at the Bimhuis  the leading jazz & improvised music center in Amsterdam..  Collaborations include Tangle a Vocal Dance and Music performance with Alex Maguire, pianist and Coalescence a Voice and Movement performance with Makoto Matsushima, principal performer with an internationally acclaimed dance theater company from Tokyo.
      In 1987, she founded the Rocca Project an annual summer program for interdisciplinary performance arts and healing practice in Tuscany She has been on the faculty of New York University’s Department of Experimental Theater and the School for New Dance Development and presented her work on Vocal Dance at the ‘Giving Voice’ International Festival at the Centre for Performance Research in Wales.
     Bardi studied dance in New York with Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Nancy Meehan and Daniel Nagrin and theater in Europe with Eugenio Barba (Odin Theater) and Zigmond Molik (Polish Laboratory Theater).  She has trained in Craniosacral Therapy and Visceral Manipulation (Upledger Institute, USA) and has practiced physical repatterning for over twenty five  years.