Bernadett Jobbágy

Bernadett Jobbágy is a doctoral candidate at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE), where she has completed her doctoral coursework (absolutorium). She is a choreographer, performer, and somatic movement group facilitator (trained as a Somatic Movement Educator at The School for Body-Mind Centering®), as well as a researcher and filmmaker focusing on somatic moving image practices. She earned her master degree in Landscape Architecture at Corvinus University of Budapest (2006), later studied at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, and completed film editing studies at the Lumiere Film School. In 2021, she took part in founding SZOME – the Association for Somatic Education and Movement (Hungary), of which she remains an active member. Her current research explores the dialogue and mutual influence between moving image and somatic practice, focusing on the somatic potential of film, particularly in relation to choreographic moving images. Her doctoral research is supported by the Cooperative Doctoral Program (KDP-2021) of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology. She has organized several professional public events related to her research, including the international symposium “Contemporary Somatics – Bodies Today” (2025). Alongside her academic work, she is active as an independent artist, performer, and educator. Besides contemporary dance and improvisation, her main movement and intellectual background lies in Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) somatic approach, as well as regular Tai Chi and QiGong practice.
Publications
- (2024) - Embodying Space: The Inside and the Outside of Soma in a Creative Process. Papers in Arts and Humanities 4(1): 103-123.
- (2024) - Somatic Composition and Embodied Filmmaking – a case study on practice and practitioners through the example of a Creative Lab. The Journal of Somaesthetics 10(2): 162-177.
- (2022) - AIA: 120-hour-book. Created by Bernadett Jobbágy, Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Miriam Mallalieu, Roelant Meijer, Giulia Paradell, Amy Pezzin, Cristian Toro & Zoë Wonfor.

