I am Sanela Janković, a dance artist, Assistant Professor in the field of stage movement, practitioner of dance movement therapy, and supervisor in the field of dance movement therapy practice. I graduated in Contemporary Dance from London Contemporary Dance School, University of Kent (UK). I have been working for many years in the development of dance movement therapy in the region as one of its early practitioners and educators, across artistic, educational, and therapeutic contexts.
I am one of the founders and a long-standing president of the Croatian Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy (HUPPP), as well as the national delegate of Croatia to the European Association Dance Movement Therapy (EADMT). In my work, I also act as a supervisor, focusing on the development of practitioners and the integration of artistic, educational, and therapeutic practices. I am currently furthering my education in Psychotherapy Propedeutics at Algebra Bernays University and at at Algebra Bernays University in Zagreb and at Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden.
Via Sana Arts is my artistic-research and therapeutic framework within which movement, the body, and presence are approached as ways of creating and understanding experience. My work is grounded in the concept of embodied creativity — creation that does not arise primarily from cognitive processes, but is constituted through embodied and affective experience of the moving body.
Through dance, somatic approaches, and dance movement therapy, I explore how experience can be transformed into expressive, tangible form, while the process of movement simultaneously supports personal and relational integration. In this context, creation and healing are not understood as separate processes, but as interwoven and continuous processes of becoming.
