Hanna Pajala-Assefa (TeaK MA, choreographer 1995) is a dance artist and multimedia choreographer who focuses on choreography, dance film, exploratory innovative work and the mediated body at the interface of dance and new technologies. During her career, she has created over 40 dance works, dance films and multidisciplinary multimedia performance art productions, which have been seen around the world. Since 2013, she has worked in interactive audiovisual media and virtual technologies, as well as teaching and curating new media performance content. She is currently at the University of the Arts Helsinki pursuing a doctorate in arts on the choreography in mediated performance environments.