Janina Rajakangas Project is making contemporary dance with professional and non-professional performers.

Janina Rajakangas is a choreographer, performer and teacher based in Helsinki. She has been offered grants for artistic work since 2017 by Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Finnish Cultural Foundation. Janina has explored themes such as the sexualization of teenage girls (Venus 2022), inclusivity as choreography (Dancer 2023), the agency women have over their bodies and the place of aging women in nordic societies (Look me in the eyes 2025). At the moment she reflects the human impact on other species with children (Floor is lava 2025). 

Janina’s practice centers around making the dancing body undo rules given to the everyday body. She has found out that moving the body in poetic ways in different constellations of people breaks down expectations of what we are meant to do together. The doing brings to practice a poetry that in itself holds the key to the dance in the making.

Janina Rajakangas Projects works have been shown at and supported by: Zodiak Centre for New Dance, CODA Oslo International Dance Festival, Dance House Helsinki, Kiasma Theatre, The Place Theatre, Moving in November Festival, and Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival among others.