Susanne Martin (PhD) performs, researches and teaches in the field of contemporary dance. She focuses on improvisational approaches to performance making, narrations of the aging body, contact improvisation, and practice as research / artistic research. She dances and teaches internationally and creates performances collaboratively and as soloist. In her book “Dancing Age(ing)” (published in January 2017) she discusses the potential of improvisation-based dance in developing a critical position towards dominant conceptions of aging.