The Story & Journey
Biography
Roos Helena is an interdisciplinary performing artist working across contemporary dance, somatic education, writing, choreography, and emerging visual and installation practices. Her work investigates the body as a site of paradox where she examines vulnerability and withdrawal, exposure and protection, dissolution and resilience, revealed through somatic attention, durational improvisation, and relational environments. Her practice explores shifting boundaries between the human and more-than-human, working with materials, atmospheres, and sensory states to examine how cultural, emotional, and ecological forces teach us how to hold, hide and express ourselves.
After graduating from Codarts University of Performing Arts she has lived and created across Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Greece and Asia which profoundly reshaped her sense of identity, belonging and her artistic language. This transnational experience sharpened her awareness and interest in how bodies absorb and express cultural instructions and how they manifest differently across geographies, yet echo the same inherited architectures.
PERMEA
Alongside her artistic work, Roos founded PERMEA, a platform for somatic education, creative inquiry, and collective learning. PERMEA provides online and in-person programs rooted in curiosity, relational intelligence, and non-hierarchical exchange. The platform grows from the belief that change begins in the body and radiates outward into communities, relationships, and culture.
My methodology rests in impulse versus decision, deep attention, experimentation, and working with questions rather than fixed methods or truths. Rooted in trauma-informed principles, I blend artistic translation, somatic experiencing and relational practice.