Jadi Carboni (Bologna 1981, Bologna) is a choreographer, dancer, body-worker, and practitioner of various performing arts and healing practices in which sound and movement become the medium for communication, discovery, and creation. Her choreographic and physical practice is inspired by natural forces and principles. She perceives the body as a continuum between the physical, emotional, and intellectual dimensions.
Jadi graduated from the National Dance Academy in Rome, won a scholarship at the Venice Biennale to work under Carolyn Carlson, and continued her studies at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. She obtains her master degree in choreography in 2020

Jadi has danced throughout Europe, South America, and the USA, with Kirstie Simson, Kathleen Hermersdorf, Stephanie Maher, Julyen Hamilton, Scottish National Theatre, Djalma Primordial Science, and Sasha Waltz.

As a choreographer, important projects include the award-winning dance video “Gravity Well”, the EU-funded artistic research project “On the Way to Immortality”, She works as a choreographer for the director Barbara Wachendorf to realize Youtopia, At the Sommerblut Festival, an interactive, interdisciplinary theater project, nominated for the Kölner Tanz- und Theaterpreise 2019..

In addition to her work as a choreographer and dancer, Jadi is a certified Yoga and Pilates teacher, Sound Therapist, and a prize-winning actress (” El Ray,” Barcelona Film Festival). She also practices martial arts, Qi gong, Aikido, contact improvisation, Body-Mind Centering, voice training, Sound therapy, Reiki, and Zen Therapy.