Otto Akkanen Osteopath (BA, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences) Dance Teacher (M.A.) (Hochschule für musik und darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main) Dancer (Outokumpu, Riveria) Sosionomi (AMK, DIAK)
Main questions Presence/existance Ontology.
Philosophy of teaching All knowledge is physical (even if information is not), and thus embodied.
All knowledge is created by the “student” from the experiences and circumstances.
“Teacher” can affect the circumstances, but not the knowledge that is formed
The knowledge formed by “student” might be more “valid” than the knowledge which the “teacher” was aiming to pass on.
As a dancer (2017) Please follow the vimeo link to see
Excerpt from improvisation in Kagoshima, Japan 2015
Everything’s the same (2006 – ongoing)
Structured improvisation, or a choreography if you will. On past, present, future, presence, memory, identity, loss.
Aldebaran
As a dancer, 2013 Please follow the vimeo link to see other credits
Sleeping Patterns
As a dancer, 2011 Please follow the vimeo link to see other credits.
Video
I Tend to Forget 2022
To be here, always 2003-2019
Why do I live ? 2015 – ongoing
Kaatumalla / By fall 2003
Music
Song for you (2019 – ongoing) All songs are improvisations, made within 6 minutes from topics given by people through social media. Link to the song is posted to the person who gave the topic.
Eventhough songs might later “develope” the projects aim is the one to one communication, and creating a relation through creation.
Oh death
Inside
Save my Breath (2006)
Small patch of 3″ cd-r’s with individual photographs.
4 endings (2007)
music pieces originally made for the ending of the dance piece “everything’s the same”
