BIO

Rebecca Laube-Pohto is a Finnish dance artist, choreographer, performer, and educator based between Brussels and Central Finland, whose work spans international artistic contexts. She holds a BA in Culture and Arts (Dance Pedagogy) from Turku Arts Academy (2015) and is the co-founder and artistic director of Keskellä Collective, an independent platform dedicated to contemporary performance, artistic collaboration, and interdisciplinary exchange.

Laube-Pohto’s artistic practice is rooted in physicality, presence, and real-time composition. Drawing from a broad movement background including contemporary dance, contact improvisation, partnering, classical ballet, hip hop, house, voguing, floor work, and improvisation, she approaches choreography as a living process emerging through embodied experience, listening, and connection. Her work is deeply informed by intercultural experiences, international collaborations, and an ongoing interest in cultural exchange, body memory, and embodied landscapes.

She has performed, created, and taught throughout the Nordic countries and internationally in Belgium, Portugal, Japan, India, Colombia, and elsewhere. In recent years, she has collaborated with choreographers including Sari Palmgren, Yasen Vasilev, Terhi Kuokkanen (Off/Balance), and Mirva Mäkinen, while also developing her own choreographic and improvisation-based work. Alongside her artistic practice, she has taught dance for over twenty years, working with both emerging and professional artists nationally and internationally. Her pedagogical practice includes contemporary dance, improvisation, partnering, Flying Low, Passing Through, and real-time composition, fostering environments that encourage curiosity, agency, and embodied awareness.

Her artistic approach has been shaped by long-term studies with David Zambrano and extensive engagement with the practices of Flying Low, Passing Through, and Instant Composition.

Laube-Pohto actively contributes to the contemporary dance field by curating performances, facilitating workshops, and creating opportunities for artistic exchange. Her work has been supported by multiple working grants from the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Central Finland Fund) and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland, as well as project and travel grants supporting artistic collaborations in Finland and internationally.

Her current artistic interests explore body memory, roots and belonging, embodied landscapes, and choreographic processes that emerge through immediacy, human connection, and the body’s continuous dialogue with its surroundings. Through performance, teaching, and collaboration, she seeks to create spaces where movement becomes a way of listening, relating, and imagining new possibilities for connection across cultures.