Jaana Klevering

Dance artist Jaana Klevering is currently preparing her artistic doctoral thesis at the Theatre Academy, Helsinki. Her research focuses on the construction of bodily agency and subjectivity in the processes of improvising, choreographing and performing dance. She is especially interested in the intercorporeal, interdisciplinary and relational aspects of performing and the emergence of new insights on social interaction and bodily resistance through dance.

Jaana Klevering is a pioneer of new dance and contact improvisation in Finland. She has worked extensively as a performer, choreographer, teacher and organizer of art events since 1984. Her performances take place both in established contemporary dance venues and in remote landscapes or public urban locations. They are often collaborations with music and vocal art. She received a three year grant for her artistic work from the Dance Council of Finland in 2002 and Kone Foundation awarded her a two year grant for her doctoral research in 2009. She studied in Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Opleiding Moderne Dans during 1980-1983 and received her MA in Dance from the Theatre Academy, Helsinki in 2004. She also studied Authentic Movement and Somatic methods in Finland and Netherlands.