Simo Kellokumpu is a choreographer and a doctorate candidate in the Performing Arts Research Center at the Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. He received his MA in Choreography from Theatre Academy Helsinki in 2003, and since then he has been working as a choreographer in various projects. His current work moves in between choreography, performance, installation, and video. In his doctoral artistic research project Kellokumpu examines the relations in between (outer) space, place, context, atmosphere, and the human body, and the movements from the practice of a choreographer towards the practice of a choreoreader.