About
Wilma Seppälä is a dance artist based between Finland and Sweden. In 2021 she graduated from the dance performance programme in Stockholm University of the Arts. Wilma is working widely within dance, performance, choreography and dance teaching.
In her artistic work Wilma works with movement and somatics around themes like emotions, pleasure and drama. She loves to dive into details both as a dancer and as a choreographer and find big worlds in small things. For her dance offers a possibility for focus, resting and being active simultaneously. Currently Wilma is interested in personal and collective unconscious, being around things she doesn’t understand and the co-existence of silence and high frequency in movement.
As a dancer Wilma has worked with Sanna Söderholm, Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Amanda Piña, Wilhelmina Ojanen and Hooman Sharifi amongst many others. Between 2018 and 2022 she collaborated with juggler Onni Toivonen and musician-sound designer Konsta Leinonen in Amalgam which is a performance about the collision of dance, juggling and sound.
Education
2018 - 2021 BA in Dance Performance, SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts
2015 - 2017 Vocational Qualification in Dance, North Karelia College Outokumpu
2014 - 2015 Theatre programme 1, Lahti Folk High School
2011 - 2013 Matriculation examination, Tampere Arts-Oriented Senior Secondary School (TYK)
Work as a dancer/performer
2023 Hermostoromahdus, director: Maiju Saarinen, TTT residency, Tampere
2023- A Story, choreography: Sanna Söderholm, Handenterminalen Konst, Stockholm
2023 ALDA, choreography: Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Finlayson Art Area, Tampere
2023 Dancing Feast, choreography: Sebastian Lingserius, Stockholm
2022 Matters of Care (or every thing we do), choreography: Wilhelmina Ojanen, Tampere
2018-2022 Amalgam, collaboration with juggler Onni Toivonen and musician Konsta Leinonen
2022 Quööriem, choreography: Sanna Söderholm (Uncover Choreography), Stockholm
2022 Tira Kuna, choreography: Amanda Piña, Havremagasinet, Boden, Sweden
2021 becoming-with, choreography: Wilhelmina Ojanen, Pirkanmaa Dance Center
2021 Narttu Live (työnimi) director: Meri-Maija Näykki, Täsmäteatteri, Tampere
2021 My Friend Little Fuzzy Buzzer, choreography: Elina Jakowleva, Dance Theatre MD
2021 Tira Kuna - Dances of Earth, choreography: Amanda Piña, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
2020 For Instance, choreography: Michikazu Matsune, SKH
2020 While they are floating, choreography: Hooman Sharifi, SKH
2019 Hosting Hosts, choreography: Thiago Granato, SKH
2017-2018 CAYA (Come As You Are), choreography: Niina Rajaniemi, Pirkanmaa Dance Center
Grants:
2022 6-month personal working grant (corona grant), Arts Promotion Center Finland
2021 3-month personal working grant (corona grant), Arts Promotion Center Finland
Workshops:
Cristina Caprioli, Zoë Poluch, Ulrika Berg, Chrysa Parkinson, David Zambrano, Sonya Lindfors, Alma Söderberg, Anna Grip and Elina Pirinen among others
Work as a choreographer
2022 Garden (work-in-process), PDC residency
2021 Narttu Live (työnimi), Täsmäteatteri, Tampere
2021 Act Four: Scene of Sentimentality, SKH
2020 Kämänen Catwalk - a dance flashmob,
Legioonateatteri, Tampere
2020 Lady, SKH
2019 In the Garden, SKH
2019 Spring, SKH
2018 Amalgam
2017 Insomnia Song, North Karelia College
2017 FLESH//SHIVER, North Karelia College
2017 Kielipiteitä, Tampereen Ylioppilasteatteri
2016 Hoo&Ämmä, North Karelia College
