Artistic Work
Katharina Conradi
I am an artist/educator/therapist who works from the body as a starting point — not just as a medium for performance, but as a place of sensation, memory, story and connection. With more than thirty years of experience as a choreographer, dancer, educator and movement therapist, my artistic and educational work are deeply intertwined — driven by the same core question: what does the body carry, and what does it need to express? The same curiosity that drives my choreography is also at the heart of how I teach and how I work with people.
My creative work spans dance performance, dance film and community projects, and is shaped by a love for poetic imagery and a consistent attention to place — urban landscapes, nature and site-specific environments. These places are never just backdrops, but active participants in my work. I approache human themes such as grief, courage, fury, belonging, freedom — physically and authentic, letting the body speak without over-explaining.
My work is shaped by contrast — the vulnerable body against a powerful environment, the individual within a community, freedom within structure. These contrasts are like a lemniscate, there is not one without the other.
I carry a deep belief about movement; that it belongs to everyone, not just trained dancers. That thread connects my choreographic work to my teaching, my community projects and the way I have related to dance since childhood.
If you engage in travel, you will arrive.
Short Biography
I am educated as a Dancer/Choreographer, Certified Movement Analyst, Master in Dance Therapy, and Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist.
BA Dance/Choreography, MA Dance Movement Therapy, CMA (LBMS Practicioner and Analyst), Registered Somatic Educator and Therapist (ISMETA)
I have been working as a choreographer and dancer in the Netherlands and abroad for over thirty years. My creative work includes dance films, intercultural projects and site-specific performances. I teach Somatic Movement, LBMS, Creative Process, Contact Improvisation and Dance Therapy at the University of the Arts Codarts in Rotterdam and at the Academy for Dance and Theatre in Amsterdam, working with physical actors, dancers, circus artists and dance therapists. I work internationally as a teacher of somatic and creative practice in various settings in Spain, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Polen, Belgium and New York. I offer individual dance therapy, effective movement coaching and somatic practice in my studio in Amsterdam. Together with Marieke Delannoy, I co-founded EMOVE Institute, an educational institute for Laban Bartenieff Movement Studies in the Netherlands. www..emoveinstitute.com
Dance Performance, Films & Book
In this section you will find a small collection of my artistic work – part of it is a collaboration with other artists of multi diciplinary background and part of it is specifically orientated to dance performance.
Europium with Nada Kokotovic
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Horizon – Dance Film
Horizon is a short dance film about the impulsive search of a woman for the horizon that is no longer visible in the city. A confrontation between body and modern urban architecture. HORIZON focuses on a dancer who uses her surroundings in a search for parts of herself. Amsterdam’s urban environment provides a counterbalance.
Choreography and directing: Katharina Conradi Editing and directing: Sergio Gridelli Performance: Marieke Dermul
The Home Project – Book Community Project
‘The Home Project’ is a book about identity and shared experience. Together with photographer and graphic designer Matina Sideri, I created a book about people living in my neighbourhood in the center of old Amsterdam. We inteviewed thirty residents of the neigbourhood, young and old, of different ethnicity, age and gender, about what home means to them and what is necessary in feeling at home in a neighbourhood. We went to interview and photograph them in their own environment to capture them authentically. A book with beautiful portraits of people in a unique neighbourhood.
The Snow and the Maiden – Dance Film
Twisted doors – Dance Performance
Leeuwenhart
Kom dichter…
If you are different, you can feel being left out; you are weird and you don’t belong to a group. Kom dichter… shows what happens when everything is turned around and nothing is as it should beA girl who is good at playing the drums, two boys who become intimate with each other, a girl that explores her super-power. The rhythm of the drummer excites them, supports them and triggers them. A dance performance with feminine and masculine aspects that could get out of control.
Choreography: Katharina Conradi
Dance: Mirte Courtens, Uri Evgy, Markus Schnitzer
Drums: Clara de Mik
Dramaturgy: Sarah Ringoet
Black Butterflies – Zwarte Vlinders
Duets
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get in touch
For more information about Dance Therapy, Somatic Coaching and for booking a first session.
Katharina Conradi
06 27070906
katharinaconradi@gmail.com
Eerste Helmerstraat 102 1/2
1054 EG Amsterdam
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