Antti Seppänen
Choreographer – Dancer – Actor
Antti Seppänen studied dance at the Turku art academy and the Theater academy of Finland (Teak) from where he graduated in 2005. Since then, he has worked widely as a dancer with many different choreographers like Jorma Uotinen, Jyrki Karttunen, Cris af Enehielm, Jarec Cemerec, Ingun Bjørnsgraad, Mikiko Kawamura, Yuval Pick, Hugo Fanari, Jenni Kivelä and Yuval Pick. In dance, he is interested in how timing can affect and change meanings and how the body and mind jointly act as a unit of communication.
In 2014, Antti received an artist grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. His work has taken him to 21 countries, for example Norway, Sweden, Germany and Russia. His latest engagements have been with the Viirus Theater as an actor in the play Svält – Hunger, Tanssiteatteri MD in Tampere in the dance piece Lovekick, the Finnish National ballet as a dancer, and in Greenland as a residency artist to work in his own solo.
He has also worked as an actor in several Finnish productions.