Francesca Bardaro is a cross-media artist, digital scenographer, video maker en photographer based in Groningen (NL), working across the boundaries of performance, theatre, video, photography and installation.
Francesca was born and raised in Formia, Italy. She received her Bachelor Degree in Arts and Techniques of Digital Entertainment from La Sapienza University (Rome - IT). For the final project, she had the opportunity to research on the use of Immaterial Scenographies and new media in performing arts at Aarhus University (Aarhus, DN) and at Statens TeaterSkole (Copenaghen, DN) with Mark Coniglio of Troika Ranch.
Later on, she received a Master's Degree in MFA Scenography from Frank Mohr International Masters (Groningen - NL), where she had the support of professionals such as Peter Te Nuyl, Mirjam Grote Ganseij, Sjoerd Wagenaar, André Joosten, Marc Warning, Theun Mosk, Gerardjan Rijnders.
During this period, Francesca Bardaro has passionately started a research on the concept of Embodied Psyche, i. e. the metaphor of the body as psychic dimension in art.
Since 2009 Francesca has focused on conceptualize, video producing and directing her own performances including the solos Woyzeck's Introspection (2010), Aware Anesthesia (2010), Digging Into (2011) and Visceral Grip (2012). In the last years, she took also the direction of collaborative projects such as The dream of a heart in earth (2011) and The Origin of Pace (2012), merging different kinds of artistic expressions such as video, dance and music.
She also produced several short videos, paintings and photographic projects which have been screened and exhibited at festivals and exhibitions worldwide.
At present, she is working as freelance camerawoman, video editor and photographer both for several clients in Noord-Holland and the film and animation company Creative Monkey in Groningen.