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