Heli Keskikallio is a Finnish choreographer, dancer and pedagogue based in Helsinki. She works with performance, dance and multimaterial bodily thinking making performances and performative events, facilitating artistic meeting places, curating and organising artistic happenings, teaching and writing texts of body, dance and the artistic working structures in different contexts.
In her choreographic works Keskikallio is interested in the processes and different registers of bodily thinking. Making art is for her a way of practicing ecological sensitivity and speculative somatics that she approaches through sensuousness, flesh, and the extra linguistic expressivity and sensibility of bodily beings. She wants to cultivate sensuous ways of knowing and embodied thinking into this world that she feels is pierced through reason, making sense and algorithms.
Arts Promotion Center Finland has awarded Keskikallio a three-year artist grant for years 2024-2026.