16th Annual Professional Training Program in AMSTERDAM
November 2008 - June 2009

Vocal Dance
& Voice Movement Integration
Certification Program leading to Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator – recognized by ISMETA

with PATRICIA BARDI

THE PROGRAM

• Applying voice, movement and experiential anatomy in dance and theater improvisation.

• Integrating bodywork techniques (Organ Rebalancing, Craniosacral Therapy & Body-Mind Centering®) with vocal and movement expression.

• Certification Program leading to Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator (recognized professionally by ISMETA).

This professional training program offers an intensive physical training in techniques which develop skills connecting dance, movement, breath, voice, improvisation, physical repatterning and hands-on practice. It represents Patricia's active approach to synthesizing a detailed knowledge of experiential anatomy with the practice of Vocal Dance.

'...highly professional, convincing...'
(Jaana Klevering, choreographer)

VOCAL DANCE is a physical practice that frees the voice to be fully alive and reflected in one´s expressive behavior and movement.

VOICE MOVEMENT INTEGRATION (VMI) BODYWORK PRACTICE is an integrative experiential hands-on practice combining voice with movement to stimulate and organize the body’s physical-perceptual-emotional awareness.

The practice consists of a comprehensive study of the human body drawing on experiential anatomy, physiology, human motor development, perception and body oriented psychology to bring cognitive understanding into a whole body experience.

These approaches are complimentary and use physical awareness and movement as a source and resource for understanding the whole of the person. These skills are then applied to how we work with other people, interact and facilitate a larger group process and guide individually with our sense of touch.

Each person combines the results of in-depth personal study with hands-on partnering work and ensemble interaction to gain confidence and practical experience in synthesizing intuitive creative processes with informed analysis of movement and voice.

'fascinating... a guide into the understanding & synthesis of movement, creative expression & personal growth.'
(Gunn Engelsrud, Ph.D.)

This course is intended for people working professionally, studying or showing interest in the fields of education, the performing arts, therapy (physical and psychological), health and healing. People who enjoy a genuine curiosity and passion for learning will find it of great interest.

Participants who have studied with Patricia have applied this work successfully to dance, music and voice, theater, education, child development, speech therapy and body-oriented therapy.

'...put me in touch with the vital sources of singing & dancing; the level of the teaching enables me to integrate this training into my life and my sculpture.'
(Marianne Jansen, sculptor)

The Curriculum consists of

Vocal Dance
• using practical explorations with sound combined with moving in space to deepen the experience of physical integration.
• using improvisation to enliven and broaden our understanding of the material as it applies to moving  actively, individually and in a larger group process.

Body-Mind Centering®
• acquiring an experiential understanding of the major anatomical systems of the body through touch, perception  and movement.

Anatomical Studies
• researching the body systems (muscular, skeletal, organ,  endocrine, fluid and nervous systems) as a source for  identifying and qualifying sensation in movement.

Developmental Movement
• using developmental movement sequences to explore the  basic neurological patterns and underlying reflexes that co-ordinate the body's movement.

Bodywork principles and practices
• observing the structural balance of the body in relationship to the underlying organic support.
• practicing partnerwork to make changes in quality of touch in order to accurately contact different levels of tissue  (muscle, bone, organ, nerve) in another person.

N.B. Further details about the curriculum are available on request

Organization of Meetings

  • The course will take place in Amsterdam from November 2008 to June 2009.

  • The group will meet five times over a nine month period for a total of 25 days.

  • Each participant is given an optional individual session with Patricia during the training.

  • Classes will be taught in English for five hours per day in two sessions led by Patricia. Guest teachers may be invited to present related material.

  • Suggestions for individual and small group study will be given for the time between each section of the course.

  • Group discussion on a regular and continuous basis will aid participants to assimilate and articulate their experiences and gain insight from the observations and feedback of the whole group.

  • On the fourth day of each section of the course there will be an evening session for group discussion.

  • Further educational material will be provided.

  • Participants will receive a certificate upon completing the requirements of the course.

Introduction Days:

Saturday 4 October (10:00 - 17:00) / Saturday 11 October (10:00 - 17:00)

Location: Studio 7, 1e Nassaustraat 7, Amsterdam

Course Dates
2008-2009:
SECTION 1
Friday 7 November (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 8 November – Tuesday 11 November (10:00 – 17:30)
 
SECTION 2
Friday 9 January 2009 (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 10 January  – Tuesday 13 January (10:00 – 17:30)
 
SECTION 3
 Friday 6 March (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 7 March – Tuesday 10 March (10:00 – 17:30)
 
SECTION 4
 Friday 8 May (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 9 May – Tuesday 12 May (10:00 – 17:30)
 
SECTION 5
 Friday 5 June (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 6 June – Tuesday 9 June (10:00 – 17:30)

Application

The training program consists of 25 days over 5 long weekends from Friday to Tuesday in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Enrollment is limited. Early registration is advisable.

For additional information please contact us by
Telephone: +31 (0)6 120 38733
or email: info@patriciabardi.com
We are available to answer any of your questions and give an overview of the format and content of the training.

To apply for the course, please fill in and send the application form below:

APPLICATION FORM

Vocal Dance & Voice Movement Integration
with Patricia Bardi

Professional Training Program
November 2008 - June 2009

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Certification Program

Patricia offers a Certification Program in Vocal Dance and Voice Movement Integration (VMI) Bodywork Practice. The program is professionally recognized by ISMETA – International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association. The entire curriculum consists of six modules. Upon completion of this foundation course of 25 days subsequent modules can be taken in a sequence or at flexible times. Certified practitioner are eligible to join ISMETA and become Registered Somatic Therapists (RSMT) and/or Somatic Movement Educators (RSME).

Patricia Bardi

Patricia Bardi is a dance-voice artist, choreographer and bodywork specialist from New York. She teaches and performs 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.

She has developed and teaches 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 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 annual Rocca Project in Tuscany, Italy. 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 years.

For more information please contact:
Patricia Bardi Courses
Postbus 10847
1001 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel : +31 (0)6 120 387 33
Fax: + 31 (0)20 685 2488

E-mail: info@patriciabardi.com
Web page: www.patriciabardi.com

'...I liked very much the disciplined, organized, creative and developmental approach Patricia took which helped us all flourish.'
(Maggie Pittard, dance and theater teacher)

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