Height: 163 (5’3’’)
Hair colour: dirty blond
Eye colour: grey
Languages: Russian (native), English & Finnish (fluent), Spanish (intemediate), Japanese & Swedish (basic)
Katia Skylar is an actor (FIA), performance maker, butoh dancer, and fight performer based in Helsinki (Finland) and well connected internationally. Katia’s artistic projects are grounded in research processes, while her scholarly and pedagogical work draws from her background in the performing arts and photography.
As a performer and an actor, Katia has featured in short films, tv-series and audio projects, dance, theatre and performance art productions. She co-founded UtoUto Theatre Duo (2016-2020), and co-hosted a podcast Besedka s Akcentom/ Беседка с акцентом (2019-22).
Katia values horizontal collaboration in non-hierarchical settings, she creates through devising, tender border-crossing, radical listening, multi-linguality and body-driven approaches. Katia also facilitates movement and spoken word workshops.