Work
Performances & Films
My Mind’s Eye and Thickening Skin
Installation and dance films by Heidi Seppälä and Antti Juhani Ahonen in WONDERLAND X Exhibition in Kerava
New solo dance emerges from research symposium
THE BODY, THE OBJECT AND EXPRESSION OF THE SELF. OR, WHEN DID I LOSE MYSELF?
2022
The will to change
Grand Popo, Benin.
Dance, directing
A conversation with dance artist Heidi Seppälä about decolonial dance teaching, Nordic-West African cooperation and studies in separate teacher’s pedagogical studies in the arts.
DANCO presentations and dance video in De-Colonising tertiary dance education – Act Now Conference by Stockoholm University(Sweden), and Makerere University(Uganda)
2021
Danco – School for De-Colonizing the Art of Dance
Finland, Nigeria, Benin
Cofounder
Dance – A universal language? Teaching contemporary dance for children in Benin
Dance – A universal language? Teaching ballet in occupied territories of Palestine
2016
Dialogue for one
Hallein, Austria.
Concept, performance
2016
Spiritual Cabaret
Vienna, Austria.
Choreography, dance
2015
Lorelei
Hohe Wand, Austria
Dancer, Movement Director
2015
InDifferentLight
Bulgaria, Slovenia, Austria
Dance Performance Project, Residency, Roadtrip, Exhibition & Performances
2014
Flashbacklash
RichMix, London, UK
Concept and choreography
2014
Head Home
Saddleŕs Wells, London, UK
Choreography
2013
Liberty Leaving the People
Accidental Festival, London, UK
Choreographer
2013
AM ? I
LCP Dance Theatre, Tour in UK
Dancer, Rehearsal Director
2012
Teatime Wonder Games, Slow Art, Figmentations Art Collective.
Tours in UK
Actress, choreographer
2011
The Night
Bonnie Bird Theatre, London, UK
Dance
2011
Fairwell to Featherstonehaughs
Riverside Studios, London, UK
Dance
2011
Macbeth
London, UK
Movement Director
2010
Bernsteins MASS
Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
Dancer
2009
Golem Solo
London, Tampere.
Dance
2009
Goodbye Estonia
Viljandi, Estonia
Choreography, dance
2006
Peter Pan
Tiirismaa Music High School, Lahti, Finland
Choreography, Dance
Exhibitions
Research
Artistic research addressing post-colonial challenges and racialisation through embodied practises
2022
Impressions from Experiencing Artistic Research Through the Senses Symposium in OSLO
Rønningen Folkehøgskole, Oslo, Norway.
A new article by Heidi Seppälä and Jalmari Nummiluikki is out in AKPÉ-magazine
DANCO in Groundwork dialogues conference
Nordic Summer University’s Artistic Research Conference: Experiencing Artistic Research Through the Senses.
Impressions from artistic research symposium in Viesu nams Lauciņi, Lāde, Latvia.
Patterns of Masculinity – workshop in Lagos Centre for Contemporary Art
