Voice, singer and composer · Improviser

Jodi Gilbert

Jodi Gilbert

Jodi Gilbert

Amsterdam

Jodi Gilbert

Photograph · Lisa Haskins

01 / Practice

Jodi Gilbert is a singer, dancer, actor and performance teacher from California, based in Amsterdam. Her work brings vocal improvisation into dialogue with movement, theatre and song. She studied theatre at UC Berkeley and dance and choreography at UCLA, later developing her performance practice in New York and Europe. Her collaborators include Meredith Monk, Michael Moore and the ICP Orchestra; she performed in Monk’s Indra’s Net at the Holland Festival and in New York. Her teaching experience includes the Amsterdam University of the Arts and workshops in voice, dance and improvisation across Europe and the United States.

02 / In practice

Jodi Gilbert performing at IMDL 05

Jodi Gilbert · IMDL 05 · Splendor · 17 July 2026

Film still / Videography · Jongkag Park

Jodi Gilbert performing at IMDL 05

Jodi Gilbert · IMDL 05 · Splendor · 17 July 2026

Film still / Videography · Jongkag Park

Sound. Movement.
In real time.

Sound. Movement.
In real time.

Sound. Movement.
In real time.

01 / Performance film

Jodi Gilbert — IMDL #5: Acclimation · 1 min

Films: Jongkag Park

Practice & experience

Jodi Gilbert works with voice, text and small instruments across improvisation, song and ensemble performance. Her projects connect folk material, sound poetry and improvised music.

Her projects include The Voice is the Matter, combining vocal improvisation, folk material and music by Michael Moore.

Initiated Rasp/Hasp, working with partly composed and partly improvised material.

Her projects include Spoon 3 + 1 Fork with Albert van Veenendaal, Meinrad Kneer and Robert van Heumen.

Has sung with All Ellington, the Amsterdam collective initiated by Eric Boeren.