"From the breath, the movement arises, I follow the rhythm of my heart. Smelling, touching, hearing, I dance through each moment of my life."
"Through dance I claim equality between all life forms and their belonging to the natural world. I wish to share the value of dancing as a natural and innate ability of all human beings. Let s dance to celebrate and respect the multiplicity and diversity of our bodies, which together create the magic of our earthly unity."
Jadi Carboni is a dancer, choreographer and body worker. She is an eclectic performing artist, working in public spaces and more conventional locations (theaters, museums, galleries) with dancers and non/dancers to create interdisciplinary projects, participatory interventions and dance films...
Her exploration develops through somatic practices and postmodern techniques, voice and its relation with gesture. Bringing awareness to the natural dialogue between the inner and outer space, she witnesses how they transform and “in-form” one another. She is committed to breaking down the fourth wall, inviting the audience to feel part of the artistic creation and the interpreters to be aware that the public is part of the creation and the performing process.
Jadi has studied throughout Europe, South America, and the USA with artists such as Karl Jay Lewin, Kirstie Simson, Kathleen Hermersdorf, Katie Duck, Sten Rudstrom, Wachendorff, Scottish National Theatre and Sasha Waltz.
As a choreographer, her credits include an EU-funded science-art research project entitled On the Way to Immortality, the Ruhrfestspiele commissioned dance theater production Areja, and the interdisciplinary quintet Suspension Study for Trisha Brown, Kunsthaus Graz. Furthermore, she created a series of duets and solos, presented at several European cities, such as Berlin, Paris, Athens, Rome, and Venice festivals. Since 2016, she has worked with theater director Barbara Wachendorff in different productions in Germany, including social minorities.
In addition to her work in dance, Jadi is a prize-winning actress and filmmaker:”El Rey,” Barcelona Film Festival 2013; various awards for the three dance films she produced: Gravity Well, Dancing My Hero and Maya’s Faces. Since 2017, she has studied Dhrupad singing, a genre in Hindustani classical music from the Indian subcontinent. In 2019, she was awarded the Promos Stipendium from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.
Jadi holds an MA in choreography from the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum für Tanz, Berlin, and she is in the process of the Open Source Form education by and with Stephanie Skura. She studied at the National Dance Academy in Rome, at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, and won a scholarship at the Venice Biennale under Carolyn Carson. She has also studied martial arts (Thai-qi, Aikido), voice training(Opera, blues, experimental, overtone), and bodywork (Sound therapy, Reiki, Zen Therapy).
Production:
- January 2025 - Performer for productions of Dali Tuiti
- September 2024 - Summa Sonorum, festival for old music
- February 2024- Peaches grow wild along a scenic route - Durational and participatory solo performance - Theater am Lend, Graz; Wuk Vienna
- October 2023 - Moskau Petuski - in collaboration with Fredrik Hoffmann- Choreographer and Dancer
- October 2022 - Suspension Study for Trisha Brown - interdisciplinary dance Quintett at the Kunsthaus Graz Choreographer and dancer
- March 2022 - Maya's Faces - Dance Video
- Jenuary 2021 Der Dunkle Wolk/Der Bau - Choreopher and dancer - in collaboration with Barbara Wachendorf, Heidelberg
- July 2020 - The Hollo(w)ing - by Katrina E Bastian with Flinn Flinders Gendall, Zoe, Alice, Tiana, and Shannon
- July 2020 Dancing my Hero / short dance video - Masters Project
- December to February 2020 - Permeable Touch laboratory
- December 2019 - Curator and artistic director of the event “The Permeable Touch” – interdisciplinary performance in collaboration with Hanna Schillinger and Ming Poon
- October 2019 - “Synergetics”- a quartet in collaboration with composer Dustin Zorn
- June 2019 - “Youtopia,” an interactive, inclusive theater project, nominated for the Kölner Tanz- und Theaterpreise 2019 - in collaboration with Barbara Wachendorf
- June 2019 - “Der Blendende Glitzern “- Trio in collaboration with David Lima and Evangelia Papadopoulou.
- April 2019 - “Gravity Well” - Videodance - winner of five Critics Choice Awards, and selected as a finalist for the Cine-dance Festival in Thessaloniki and Tipperary Dance Platform
- 2016-2018 - “Bicycle built for (x)” - Ongoing research project in collaboration with composer Christopher Williams.
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Her work is supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Graz, the Cultural Department of the Province of Styria, and the Arts Department of the Federal Chancellery of Austria.
