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Dr. Leena Rouhiainen
Dr. Leena Rouhiainen is Professor in Artistic Research at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. She is a dancer and choreographer whose research interests lie in somatics, choreography, experimental writing, phenomenology and artistic research. She has published articles and co-edited
journals and books in these areas, including Dance Spaces: Practices of Movement (2012) with Susanne Ravn, Tanssiva tutkimus: tanssitutkimuksen menetelmiä ja lähestymistapoja (2014) with Hanna Järvinen as well as Dance Articulated Special Issue CHOREOGRAPHY NOW with Tone Pernille Østern (2020). Currently she is forwarding an approach to textual choreography with Kirsi Heimonen.