BARRETTO ONG
My Practices
Dancer + Performer
Patricia Marie Barretto Ong is a lifelong dancer. A resident of the SF Bay since 1999, she arrived from UC Santa Cruz after earning a BA in Theater Arts with a dance and choreography emphasis.
She has worked locally with the Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble, Alleluia Panis Dance Theater, Erika Shuch Performance Project, Malia Movement Company, Sydney Loyola Dance, Parangal Dance Company and collaborative projects with musician/composer Rachel Lastimosa, writer/actor/director Sean San Jose, and painter Cece Carpio.
Movement Director + Choreographer
As well as a dancer + perfomer, Patricia is a movement director + choreographer with a creative practice rooted in culture, healing and community. Her work spans through genres from dance theater, dance film, to theatrical plays. Most recently, she directed movement + choreography in Aztlán, a Campo Santo production at The Magic Theater, written by renowned playwright, Luis Alfaro, and directed by Kinan Valdez of Teatro Campesino.
Birthkeeper + Bodyworker
For the last 15 years, Patricia has cultivated a practice within birthkeeping and body work with an intention to care for the body, mind, and spirit of the whole person. Her intuitive approach allows her to faciltiate folks to tuning into their bodies. Offerings within body work include: Shiatsu, deep tissue, jin shin do, and cupping.
When it comes to Patricia’s approach to birthkeeping: she wants the experience to feel both empowering and nurturing. Her intention is to support the family through this new life transformation. She holds this sacred space from pre-natal to labor + birth to post-partum– supporting families navigating the many shifts to come.
Educator
With all these practices, Patricia is passionate about bringing these artforms into the communities she’s a part of. She is a collaborator in Agasan, a multi-disciplinary arts collective, making spaces for healing through creative expression in movement, sound and visual arts.
She is a co-founder of Sama Sama, a family cooperative that brings together the cultural resources of the Pilipinx and Pilipinx-American community of the Bay Area to create a fun, engaging, and creative space for our children to cultivate and understand their unique identity as Pilipinx-Americans.