The Story & Journey
Biography
Roos Helena is a dance artist, choreographer, and facilitator working across contemporary dance, (contact) improvisation, somatic practice, and performance research. Her work investigates how experience is held and expressed through the body, exploring the tension between intimacy and withdrawal, exposure and protection, and how bodies navigate movement, perception, and relationships across different contexts and places.
Through somatic practice, durational work, and improvisation, Roos creates educational and performance environments where the body is both subject and method, making personal, cultural, and ecological influences visible and transformable. After graduating from Codarts University of the Arts, she has lived and worked across Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Greece, and Asia. These transnational experiences continue to inform her understanding of how bodies carry cultural, social, and relational patterns across geographies.
PERMEA
My work emerges from dance, artistic research, and ongoing somatic practice. Living and working across different cultural contexts has shaped how I facilitate: not by imposing methods, but by working with what is present. I approach the body as a responsive system that holds experience, adapts, protects, and continuously reorganizes in relation to environment, history, and social context.
I work with frameworks rather than fixed techniques, creating spaces for inquiry, experimentation, and reflection. Through movement, stillness, writing, and relational practices, I use improvisation and attention as tools to observe patterns, question habits, and explore alternative ways of sensing, relating, and responding. The creative process is central, allowing internal experiences to become visible, embodied, and reworked.
At the core is a commitment to care, consent, and responsibility. I understand safety as something that is continuously negotiated, especially when working with complex and sensitive material. Rather than aiming to fix or resolve, the work supports awareness, embodied agency, and the capacity to stay with what emerges — individually and collectively.
Education / Certification
Bachelor of Dance Education
Codarts University of the Arts, Rotterdam (NL) 2022
Pre-Bachelor Studies
ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL) 2018
Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Tilburg (NL) 2015–2018
Additional Training
Gliding Space Teacher Training, Greece (2021)
Integrative Somatic Arts Teacher Training, Greece (2022)
Contact Beyond Contact Teacher Training L1–4, Mexico (2023)
Voice Activation & Pranayama, Guatemala (2023)
Thai Massage Therapy, Guatemala (2023)
Yoga Teacher Training 200hr, India (2023)
500hr Yoga Internship, Mexico (2022)
Contact Improvisation Intensives, Thailand (2023)