Jan Burkhardt (DE) is a freelance choreographer, dancer and dance therapist, musician, qualified physiotherapist and Somatic Movement therapist as well as a certified graduate of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. Alongside his artistic activities in contemporary dance, he currently works with mentally handicapped young people and psychiatric patients. His work is strongly influenced by his long term involvement with classical and contemporary music. He presently lives in Berlin and Istanbul.