Multidisciplinary artist, performer, creator.
Erika Batdorf is an international artist who lives north of Toronto and has been performing, directing, animating art openings and creating award-winning performance work for over 30 years shared in 14 countries and 14 US states. Batdorf works in a number of mediums, mostly performance. Though known as a solo performer and theatre director/devisor, lately she has been developing large site-specific immersive projects. She also created the performance training technique called The Batdorf Technique (TBT).
Batdorf Jukebox is now live!
Batdorf’s latest project brings together a number of works that she has performed over the years, adapted to the medium of the web and spoken-word recordings.
Other recent projects
Batdorf in the Media
The Red Horse Is Leaving
J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and MailI was really impressed by Erika Batdorf's rooted, realistic performance… unique and unsensational.
Life with more cowbella thoughtful, moving journey... Cerebral and visceral at the same time... profoundly moving, thought-provoking.
Burnish
The Santa Barbara IndependentMystical and precise, “Burnish” managed to elicit a remarkably wide range of thoughts and emotions…
Miki Garcia, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary ArtBurnish “was magical and intimate and brought up some wonderful feelings- I loved it!”
Poetic License
Kate Pedersen, NOW Magazine / NNNNLicense to Thrill… hilarious and thoughtful… emotionally compelling, visually elegant… the very best thing about Poetic License is Batdorf’s humour… watching Batdorf was the highlight of my week, possibly my month.
Indah Lestari, Bangkok Post AsiaViewsA brilliant play is performed by its multitalented writer. Poetic License played brilliantly by Erika Batdorf… [this] interactive process somehow binds the actor and the spectators together… It is women’s experience on stage that can ignite a change in you.
A few older ones…
Karen Campbell, The Boston Herald…striking physicality. She doesn't so much create characters as embody their every thought… Batdorf is a natural and authoritative dancer and choreographer.
Meghan Harrison, EYE WeeklyMoving effortlessly from dry comedy to a gorgeous movement piece… warm-hearted, well-crafted…. A stunning and absorbing performance in its entirety…
Jane Hogan, Backstage, NYCBatdorf is extremely skilled… both intense and subtle… enigmatic yet accessible.
Susan Walker, Toronto StarShe’s poetry in motion. Batdorf is one of a kind…an electric presence even off-stage… she is unforgettable.