Jana Unmüßig is an artist, choreographer and artist-researcher based in Helsinki. The Berlin Artistic Research Grant Program (2020-2021) was leading to a joint project "Breathing With," which also involved Miriam Jakob and Lisa Densem. Jana's qualifications include a D.E.U.G (arts du spectacle) from Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris (2002), dance and choreography training at SEAD (2008), an MA in choreography from HZT (2010), and a D.A. from Theater Academy (Teak) of Uniarts Helsinki (2018). She was a post-doc at the Center for Artistic Research Uniarts Helsinki (2019/2020) and now lectures in choreography at Teak/Uniarts Helsinki. Shifting from freelancing during her doctorate, Jana explores nuanced ways of artistic creation, focusing on intangibility and alternative forms. She balances her time between teaching, research, and parenthood (with two children, aged 5 and 9).

Lisa Densem is a New Zealand born performer, choreographer and breath practitioner who has worked a.o. with Sasha Waltz, Laurent Chetouane, Sandra Man, Sergiu Matis and Jana Unmüssig. Her own work and teaching has for many years been directed towards the connected-ness, presence, and well-being of the dancing body – research that brought her to the breathwork BreathExperience (based on the work of Ilse Middendorf) and, eventually, to graduating as a breath practitioner in 2019. Since graduating, she has been experimenting with merging her two practices, dance performance and breathwork, exploring how breath can open new perspectives within a dance context. Lisa is a graduate of the MA Soda programme at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT Berlin).