Patricia Bardi, vocal dance and text and Arthur Brooks, music – trumpet and flugelhorn collaborated over a number of years creating a series of improvised performances exploring a nuanced and textured expressive language investigating the relationship between embodied sound texture, music, movement, dance, voice and text.
Patricia Bardi
Duet Improvisation – Patricia Bardi, Vocal Dance, Tex and Arthur Brook, Music – Trumpet and Flugelhorn at I.D.E.A. - Independent Dance Exchange, Amsterdam - 02-'94
Patricia Bardi, vocal dance and text and Arthur Brooks, music – trumpet and flugelhorn collaborated over a number of years creating a series of improvised performances exploring a nuanced and textured expressive language investigating the relationship between embodied sound texture, music, movement, dance, voice and text.
Patricia Bardi, vocal dance and text and Arthur Brooks, music – trumpet and flugelhorn collaborated over a number of years creating a series of improvised performances exploring a nuanced and textured expressive language investigating the relationship between embodied sound texture, music, movement, dance, voice and text.
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Patricia Bardi, vocal dance and text and Arthur Brooks, music – trumpet and flugelhorn collaborated over a number of years creating a series of improvised performances exploring a nuanced and textured expressive language investigating the relationship between embodied sound texture, music, movement, dance, voice and text.
Michael Vatcher – Musician – composer, improvisor - drums, percussion
Memory plays a maverick unexpectedly appearing in our daily life and nighttime dreams. A scent, a touch, a sound can bring up a cascade of forgotten people, times in our lives, places, loves and loss. What tempts the memories out of the shadows into the light? Memory melts something frozen in time and speaks in the present. The performance is an encounter with memory itself. The haphazard, unpredictable stories that arrive from somewhere we do not know and reveal a flash of insight glimmering in the dark recesses of our lived experience.
Patricia Bardi is an independent dance/voice artist, educator, researcher, bodywork specialist, licensed natural health practitioner, and somatic movement educator/therapist. She is originally from New York and based in Amsterdam. Patricia has toured extensively, teaching and performing at international festivals, universities, and theater schools. She is the founder/director of the accredited certification program – VMI Somatic Practice combining Vocal Dance, Voice Movement Integration Practice, and Vital Movement Integration Bodywork that she founded over 25 years ago, centered in Amsterdam. She has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America, India and Japan collaborating with musicians in live performance.
Michael Vatcher is a drummer and percussionist originally from California based in Amsterdam and New York. He has been a regular player in the Dutch and New York improvisation scene for many years. As a musician, he loves musical experiments and searches for new, unexpected sounds in his playing. He plays a wide collection of instruments including a dulcimer, zither, marimba, and an assortment of found objects. He doesn't limit himself to jazz and shows his musical diversity by collaborating with musicians from pop, punk, and world music performing throughout the Netherlands and internationally. For many years he has worked extensively collaborating with dance and performing artists throughout Europe and North America.
Michael Vatcher –Musician – composer, improvisor - drums, percussion
Memory plays a maverick unexpectedly appearing in our daily life and nighttime dreams. A scent, a touch, a sound can bring up a cascade of forgotten people, times in our lives, places, loves and loss. What tempts the memories out of the shadows into the light? Memory melts something frozen in time and speaks in the present. The performance is an encounter with memory itself. The haphazard, unpredictable stories that arrive from somewhere we do not know and reveal a flash of insight glimmering in the dark recesses of our lived experience.
Patricia Bardi is an independent dance/voice artist, educator, researcher, bodywork specialist, licensed natural health practitioner, and somatic movement educator/therapist. She is originally from New York and based in Amsterdam. Patricia has toured extensively, teaching and performing at international festivals, universities, and theater schools. She is the founder/director of the accredited certification program – VMI Somatic Practice combining Vocal Dance, Voice Movement Integration Practice, and Vital Movement Integration Bodywork that she founded over 25 years ago, centered in Amsterdam. She has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America India and Japan collaborating with musicians in live performance.
Michael Vatcher is a drummer and percussionist originally from California based in Amsterdam and New York. He has been a regular player in the Dutch and New York improvisation scene for many years. As a musician, he loves musical experiments and searches for new, unexpected sounds in his playing. He plays a wide collection of instruments including a dulcimer, zither, marimba, and an assortment of found objects. He doesn't limit himself to jazz and shows his musical diversity by collaborating with musicians from pop, punk, and world music performing throughout the Netherlands and internationally. For many years he has worked extensively collaborating with dance and performing artists throughout Europe and North America.
Patricia Bardi, Vocal Dance & Text
Arthur Brook, Music – Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Patricia Bardi, vocal dance & text and Arthur Brooks, music – trumpet and flugelhorn collaborated over a number of years creating a series of improvised performances exploring a nuanced and textured expressive language investigating the relationship between embodied sound texture, music movement, dance, voice and text.
Michael Vatcher – drums, percussion
Memory plays a maverick unexpectedly appearing in our daily life and nighttime dreams. A scent, a touch, a sound can bring up a cascade of forgotten people, times in our lives, places, loves and loss. What tempts the memories out of the shadows into the light? Memory melts something frozen in time and speaks in the present. The performance is an encounter with memory itself. The haphazard, unpredictable stories that arrive from somewhere we do not know and reveal a flash of insight glimmering in the dark recesses of our lived experience.
Patricia Bardi is an independent dance/voice artist, educator, researcher, bodywork specialist, licensed natural health practitioner, and somatic movement educator/therapist. She is originally from New York and based in Amsterdam. Patricia has toured extensively, teaching and performing at international festivals, universities, and theater schools. She is the founder/director of the accredited certification program – VMI Somatic Practice combining Vocal Dance, Voice Movement Integration Practice, and Vital Movement Integration Bodywork that she founded over 25 years ago, centered in Amsterdam. She has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America, India and Japan collaborating with musicians in live performance.
Michael Vatcher is a drummer and percussionist originally from California based in Amsterdam and New York. He has been a regular player in the Dutch and New York improvisation scene for many years. As a musician, he loves musical experiments and searches for new, unexpected sounds in his playing. He plays a wide collection of instruments including a dulcimer, zither, marimba, and an assortment of found objects. He doesn't limit himself to jazz and shows his musical diversity by collaborating with musicians from pop, punk, and world music performing throughout the Netherlands and internationally. For many years he has worked extensively collaborating with dance and performing artists throughout Europe and North America.
Michael Vatcher – drums, percussion
Primered November 2020 in Amsterdam
Memory plays a maverick unexpectedly appearing in our daily life and nighttime dreams. A scent, a touch, a sound can bring up a cascade of forgotten people, times in our lives, places, loves and loss. What tempts the memories out of the shadows into the light? Memory melts something frozen in time and speaks in the present.
The performance is an encounter with memory itself. The haphazard, unpredictable stories that arrive from somewhere we do not know and reveal a flash of insight glimmering in the dark recesses of our lived experience.
The program offers an intensive training integrating dance, movement, Active Breath, voice, improvisation, specialised touch, physical re-patterning, manual therapy and hands-on bodywork practice to become skilled somatic practitioners that is applicable in the fields of somatic movement therapy/education, naturopathy, manual therapy, bodywork & creative practice with voice & movement.


