Heli Keskikallio is a Finnish choreographer, dancer and pedagogue based in Helsinki. She works with performance, dance and bodily thinking making performances and performative events, facilitating artistic gatherings/meeting places, teaching and writing texts of body, dance and the 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.
Keskikallio has been working as a main teacher in a nine month Dance course in West Finland College during years 2011-2019 teaching Contemporary Dance, Improvisation and Composition, Jazz Dance, Anatomy, Dance History, Dance Analysis and Dance Knowledge. She has also been working in the board of Tanssille ry since 2018, working as the Chairperson 2023-2024.