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PATRICIA BARDI is a unique performer who brings the virtuosity of her dance to meet the subtlety of her vocal range. Her reputation as teacher, choreographer and dance artist is world-wide and in performance she brings eye and ear together in synchrony, combining voice, language and movement in her own, highly personal genre VOCAL DANCE.
Patricia has toured extensively throughout Europe, USA, Canada and India. Her work on Vocal Dance has received enthusiastic acclaim at a number of international festivals including the Giving Voice Festival - Centre for Performance Research, Wales, Dance Umbrella - London, The Actor in Group Theater - Stockholm and India International House - New Delhi.
Most recently she has collaborated and performed in London & Amsterdam; Transience, a Vocal Dance and Music performance with Alex Maguire, pianist from London and Coalescence, a Voice and Movement performance with Makoto Matsushima, principal performer with Pappa Tarahumara internationally acclaimed dance theater company from Tokyo. Patricia has collaborated with many gifted dancers, actors, musicians and poets including Arthur Brooks, Antonello Mendolia, Cris Cheek Joseph Tornabene, Bernhard Gottert and Wendell Beavers.
Her newest project is Tangle, a tapestry of story, rhythms, dialogue and gesture.
Tangle
Vocal Dance & Music Performance
Photo: C. Eeftinck Schattenkerk / design: adstream
Dance/ voice artist Patricia Bardi (USA) & pianist Alex Maguire (England) create performances that build bridges and dismantle boundaries between movement, voice & music. They allow room for the unexpected to emerge while creating finely tuned & evocative characters of emotion, memory and image.
TANGLE is a merry-go-round of invention, all at once lively, poetic, surprising and engaging.
“Their connection – evident when they perform together – has deepened over time, as has their capacity to respond intuitively to each other’s every note and gesture. In their intimate collaboration, the aural and the visual seem synonymous”
-- Amsterdam Weekly, Amsterdam (Read full article)
“This original vocal-dance-artist is so sensitive and brilliant when playing with her breath, voice and with her potential as an actress...a dancer full of lively rhythms.”
-- Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin
“The Englishman is a stunningly good player, robust and muscular.”
-- Penguin Guide of Music, UK
Patricia Bardi
The originator of Vocal Dance, Patricia Bardi is a dance/voice artist, choreographer and bodywork specialist. She teaches and performs Vocal Dance at theatre schools, universities and arts festivals in Europe, Asia and America. She has received a London Choreographers Award. Bardi has performed with many gifted musicians including Alex Maguire, David Gordon, Arthur Brooks and others. A registered somatic movement therapist with ISMETA, she is a founding member of the School for Body-Mind Centering (USA) and Chisenhale Dance Space (London). She has conducted research on North Indian vocal music and in l987 founded the Rocca Project in Tuscany, Italy. Her professional training program in Vocal Dance & Voice Movement Integration is centered in Amsterdam, where she also performs and practices bodywork with children and adults.
Alex Maguire
After having studied with John Cage and Howard Riley, he went on to perform, broadcast and record throughout East and West Europe and USA with Evan Parker, Elton Dean,Roswell Rudd, Tony Oxley, Steve Noble, Michael Moore, Tristan Honsinger, Pip Pyle, Simon H Fell,etc. He has worked with the National Theatre, Theatre de Complicite, Orlando Gough and others. He has been a tutor at the Glamorgan Summer School for 12 years and is a state registered Music Therapist specializing in Forensic Psychiatry. He is currently active with Alex Maguire-Michael Moore Duo, Sean Bergin's M.O.B., Pip Pyle's BASH, Elton Dean's Newsense, Simon H Fell Quintet as well as his own projects.
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Transience
Vocal Dance & Music Performance
Photos by Bea Landolt
Patricia Bardi and pianist Alex Maguire, two highly seasoned and imaginative improvisers, create fluid tides of mood and moment in a resonant and vibrant exchange between voice, movement and music.
“This original vocal-dance-artist is so sensitive and brilliant when playing with her breath, voice and with her potential as an actress...a dancer full of lively rhythms.”
-- Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin
“The Englishman is a stunningly good player, robust and muscular.”
-- Penquin Guide of Music, UK
Patricia Bardi
The originator of Vocal Dance, Patricia Bardi is a dance/voice artist, choreographer and bodywork specialist. She teaches and performs Vocal Dance at theatre schools, universities and arts festivals in Europe, Asia and America. She has received a London Choreographers Award. Bardi has performed with many gifted musicians including Alex Maguire, David Gordon, Arthur Brooks and others. A registered somatic movement therapist with ISMETA, she is a founding member of the School for Body-Mind Centering (USA) and Chisenhale Dance Space (London). She has conducted research on North Indian vocal music and in l987 founded the Rocca Project in Tuscany, Italy. Her professional training program in Vocal Dance & Voice Movement Integration is centered in Amsterdam, where she also performs and practices bodywork with children and adults.
Alex Maguire
After having studied with John Cage and Howard Riley, he went on to perform, broadcast and record throughout East and West Europe and USA with Evan Parker, Elton Dean,Roswell Rudd, Tony Oxley, Steve Noble, Michael Moore, Tristan Honsinger, Pip Pyle, Simon H Fell,etc. He has worked with the National Theatre, Theatre de Complicite, Orlando Gough and others. He has been a tutor at the Glamorgan Summer School for 12 years and is a state registered Music Therapist specializing in Forensic Psychiatry. He is currently active with Alex Maguire-Michael Moore Duo, Sean Bergin's M.O.B., Pip Pyle's BASH, Elton Dean's Newsense, Simon H Fell Quintet as well as his own projects.
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Coalescence
Duo with Patricia Bardi & Makoto Matsushima
Energetic sound and body exchange of
two renowned voice and movement artists
image courtesy of Kenji Sekiguchi
Coalescence: a dynamic collaborative performance between Patricia Bardi (Amsterdam) and Makoto Matsushima (Tokyo). For over 20 years, each has delved deeply into creating an innovative performance style combining vivid, kinetic voice work with finely tuned movement. Both have performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia and USA to international acclaim. This performance coalesces their sensibilities into a unique exchange of vocal music and movement.
Patricia Bardi
The originator of Vocal Dance, Patricia Bardi is a dance/voice artist, choreographer and bodywork specialist. She teaches and performs Vocal Dance at theatre schools, universities and arts festivals in Europe, Asia and America. She has received a London Choreographers Award. Bardi has performed with many gifted musicians including Alex Maguire, David Gordon, Arthur Brooks and others. A registered somatic movement therapist with ISMETA, she is a founding member of the School for Body-Mind Centering (USA) and Chisenhale Dance Space (London). She has conducted research on North Indian vocal music and in l987 founded the Rocca Project in Tuscany, Italy. Her professional training program in Vocal Dance & Voice Movement Integration is centered in Amsterdam, where she also performs and practices bodywork with children and adults.
Makoto Matsushima
Studied art at Nihon University. In 1983, he began his stage career with the Pappa Tarahumara Theatre Company while still a student. since then, he has received high acclaim as an actor/dancer on both stage and television. He has choreographed and performed his own dance pieces since 1995. In 1997, he joined Zuni Icosahedron of Hong Kong in their production of The Invisible City. With Pappa Tarahumara Theatre he has performed throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. In 1998 he performed in Hong Kong in Pappa Tarahumara’s Spring Day, and the following year was a choreographer/performer in Edward Lam Dance Theater's Rave commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival. In the past year Makoto has been based in Hong Kong as an artist-in-residence with Suni Icosahedron and has collaborated with a number of local artists, as well as performing his own solo works. He also does animation, painting, stage, design and music/sound design.
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Light Becomes Her
written, composed & performed by Patricia Bardi
  
In her one woman show, Patricia creates an integrated form of voice, movement and text. Light Becomes Her is a vocal collage weaving the threads of many women’s lives where would they have been but for chance.
- What does the old crone say about the woman at the door?
- How does the intensity of girlhood friendship dissolve and transform?
- When does memory illuminate the future?
This evening length performance brings Patricia’s distinctive style of dynamic vocal work and movement into a vivid and finely layered texture of language, sound and character. These women pulsate in living color as they come alive in performance.
Theater director George Isherwood collaborated with Patricia Bardi on a kaleidoscopic look at one woman and the multiple aspects of the different women inside her.
“This original vocal-dance-artist is so sensitive and brilliant when playing with her breath, voice and with her potential as a actress. ...a dancer full of lively rhythms.”
Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin
“Her voice resonant and forceful. Her dance fast. ...extremely powerful and riveting.”
New Dance Magazine, London
“Bardi is obviously a woman of strong ideas ...iconoclastic and indeed it is.”
City Limits Magazine, London
SOME PLACES PERFORMED:
MUIDERPOORT THEATER & FIJNHOUT THEATER - AMSTERDAM 1997
MOVEMENT RESEARCH - JUDSON CHURCH - NEW YORK CITY 1997
CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE - LONDON 1997
GIVING VOICE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL - CPR, WALES 1999
Video Available
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These performances are available for booking.
Please contact Patricia Bardi at:
Patricia Bardi
VMI Center
De Roos van Dekamaweg 3
1061 HR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)6 120 38733
Email: info@patriciabardi.com
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