Katja Mustonen is a Finnish dance maker and teacher, currently based in Outokumpu, Finland. She graduated as a dancer in Finland 2004, and holds an MA degree in Contemporary Dance Education (MACoDE, HfMDK, Frankfurt, 2010).
Since 2008, she’s been teaching Improvisation, Contemporary Dance and Contact Improvisation internationally in institutions, festivals and other venues. Artistically, she keeps being interested about the states of presence and the body’s ability to embody, transmit and transform images into knowledge, emotions, language and atmospheres. Merging photography, video, sound and text together with objects continues fascinating her, allowing her to create a larger body of her artistic work.