about

my name is Anton Skaaning Thomsen, I am 23 years old, and I work as a contemporary dance artist. in 2025, I graduated from KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts with a BA in Contemporary Dance.

currently, I am interested in how abstract physicalities establish experimental spaces between performers and audiences, affecting and communicating through relational performative intuition.

this interest spans over work in black box stages, white cube galleries, and public spaces, questioning our different possibilities of continously changing through performative situations.

central to my artistic practice is the choreographic urgency of living in a time of crises, working with international and intersectional solidarity through the body as material, method, and modality.

experience

year: name, place (country code), credits, role

2025: in cite in site in sight, KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO), choreographed by Fabrice Mazliah, dancer

2025: AER, The Cynics Republic at Museom of Modern Art Warsaw (PL), collaboration with Manuel Pelmuş, co-choreographer and dancer

2025: Tentative, Gnist Festival (DK), collaboration with Ellie Vermunt and Silas da Silva Roller, co-choreographer and dancer

2025: Untitle, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (LI), collaboration with Manuel Pelmuş, co-choreographer and dancer

2024: AER, The Cynics Republic at Palais de Tokyo (FR), collaboration with Manuel Pelmuş, co-choreographer and dancer

2024: How do I fit into all of it?, KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO), choreographed by Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki, dancer

2024: My black box is a black bloc, KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO), collaboration with Anna Schou, co-choreographer and dancer

2024: Satyāgraha Redux, The Norwegian Opera & Ballet (NO), choreographed by Anne-Linn Akselsen, dancer

2024: ZONA, Norma-T (NO), collaboration with Manuel Pelmuş, co-choreographer and dancer

2024: Baglæns, Bora Bora (DK), One Week Dance Company, dancer

2024: In Between Certainties, KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO), collaboration with Letizia Dessì

2024: Research For Nothing, The National Center for Dance Bucharest (RO), collabroation with Manuel Pelmuş, co-choreographer and dancer

2024: Alchemy, KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO), choreographed by Ludvig Daae, dancer

2024: The Heat We Produce, Gnist Festival (DK), collaboration with Ellie Vermunt and Silas da Silva Roller, co-choreographer and dancer

2023: ZONA, MX - The Museum of Public Transport (RO), collaboration with Manuel Pelmuş, co-choreographer and dancer

2023: Chissà, chissà chi sei, KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO), choreographed by Sulekha Ali Omar, dancer

2023: Permanent Collection, MUNCH Museum (NO), choreographed by Manuel Pelmuş, dancer

2023: Broke Dance, Øyafestivalen (NO), collaboration with Manuel Pelmuş, co-choreographer and dancer

2023: Mountaineers, KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO), choreographed by Anne-Linn Akselsen, dancer

2023: It’s Very Dramatic, KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO), choreographed by Fie Dam Mygind, dancer

2023: Hvad gør man?, independent short film, producer

2022: I’m Still Here, The Danish Talent Academy (DK), choreographer and dancer

2022: Månesang, Holstebro Dansekompagni (DK), choreographed by Marie Brolin-Tani, dancer

2022: Yes/No/Maybe, Dansekapellet (DK), choreographed by Lene Bonde, dancer

2021: 0-Piece Puzzle, Koreografikonkurrencen (DK), collaboration with Oliver Vilhelmsen and Clara Gudme, co-choreographer and dancer

2021: Eksorbitant, The Next Film Festival (DK), collaboration with Benjamin Ørbæk Haahr and Clara Gudme, co-director and co-choreographer

2021: Vi Maler Byen Rød, Nyborg Voldspil (DK), choreographed by Simone Svane, dancer

2021: Far Beyond, Odin Teatret (DK), choreographed by Lene Bonde, dancer

2021: Site Specific Performance, digital work, choreographer and dancer

2021: You Will Be, digital work, choreographer and dancer

2021: Kalchen - Strange, music video, dancer

2020: Lost In The Woods, digital work, choreographer and dancer

2020: Together Apart, CLAY Keramikmuseum (DK), choreographed by Lene Bonde, dancer

2020: For Mig, One Week Dance Company (DK), choreographed by Lene Bonde, dancer

2020: BYRUM, One Week Dance Company (DK), choreographed by Lene Bonde, dancer

2020: Som Om Intet Var Sket, The Next Film Festival’s Corona Awards (DK), collaboration with Clara Gudme, co-choreographer and dancer

2020: High School Musical: On Stage!, The Danish Talent Academy (DK), choreographed by Simone Svane, dancer

2017: CHINAH - Even Love, music video, dancer

education

2025: Exchange to P.A.R.T.S. BA Training Cycle, Generation XIV

2022-2025: KHIO Oslo National Academy of the Arts, BA Contemporary Dance

2019-2022: The Danish Talent Academy, Pre-education in Dance

2018-2019: Skolerne i Oure Sport & Performing Arts, Dance

workshops and intensives

2023: Choreography as a manifestation of how the brain already works - workshop with Jonathan Burrows & Bojana Cvejić, Impulstanz

2023: Damien Jalet repertoire - workshop with Astrid Sweeney, Henny Jurriëns Studio

2022: Akram Khan repertoire - workshop with Jasper Narvaez, Henny Jurriëns Studio

2022: Urban Contemporary - workshop with Emma Evelein, Henny Jurriëns Studio