D.A. (Dance) Kirsi Heimonen is an artist-researcher acting as a visiting researcher at the Performing Arts Research Centre of the Theatre Academy, University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland. She belongs to a multidisciplinary research project Engraved in the Body. Finnish people’s memories from mental hospital (funded by Kone foundation) in which she focuses on the corporeality of the patients and atmospheres within those institutions. She belongs also to a collaborative research on the notion of silence as a member of the Silence Ensemble that is supported by the Centre for Artistic Research (CfAR), University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland. She is a certified teacher of the Skinner Releasing Technique, and this somatic practice has a great influence on her artistic research.