Antti Seppänen studied dance at the Turku art academy and the Theater academy of Finland (Teak) from where he graduated in 2005. Since then, he has worked widely as a dancer with many different choreographers like Jorma Uotinen, Jyrki Karttunen, Cris af Enehielm, Jarec Cemerec, Ingun Bjørnsgraad, Mikiko Kawamura, Yuval Pick, Hugo Fanari, Jenni Kivelä and Yuval Pick. In dance, he is interested in how timing can affect and change meanings and how the body and mind jointly act as a unit of communication.

In 2014, Antti received an artist grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. His work has taken him to 21 countries, for example Norway, Sweden, Germany and Russia. His latest engagements have been with the Viirus Theater as an actor in the play Svält – Hunger, Tanssiteatteri MD in Tampere in the dance piece Lovekick, the Finnish National ballet as a dancer, and in Greenland as a residency artist to work in his own solo.

He has also worked as an actor in several Finnish productions.

Ariadne Mikou is an independent artist-researcher of Greek origin and dance specialist currently residing in Italy. She is interested in experimental practices through dance, architecture, visual arts and media. She has presented her work in various venues and contexts such as the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2015 at PQ Show & Tell (CZ); Schiume Festival of Performing Arts (IT); Danse indisciplinée Symposium (NZ); Festival international de vidéodanse de Bourgogne (FR); Light Moves Screendance Symposium (IRL); IDACO NYC (USA).

As a performer, she has collaborated with Abigail Yager (Trisha Brown Dance Company), Bojana Cvejic and Christina De Smedt, Virgilio Sieni, Ismael Ivo, Laura Boato, among others. She is co-founder of futuremellon/NOT YET ART, and currently co-curator of [SET. me free] Dance & Movement on Screen, an emerging projection platform.As an educator and movement specialist, she has collaborated with prestigious institutions including La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, IUAV University in Italy. Her articles and reviews on experimental and interdisciplinary choreographic practices have been published in several international journals and book anthologies with Culture Vulture, an internet arts journalism site, and the world theater portal The Theatre Times as editor for dance in Italy and Greece.

In 2018, she obtained her PhD in Interdisciplinary Choreography fully funded by the Research Centre of the University of Roehampton (UK). She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Ohio State University (USA), supported by the National Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY/Erasmus/Erasmus+) and a position as a Higher Education Assistant. She also holds a Diploma (attached to the Bachelor and Master degrees) from the School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR).

Konstantina Bousmpoura is an independent artist, researcher, anthropologist and filmmaker. She has researched, directed and produced ethnographic documentaries on the theme of dance, politics and activism in Buenos Aires, Seville, and Athens since 2007. The documentary “Feeling from Outside” (2008, 18′) won 1st prize at the Certamen de Creación Joven Sevilla 2009 (ESP) and has been presented in many international festivals such as XIV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (SKP, 2009), Habana Video Dance Festival (CU), Salle La Alternativa (BCN-ESP).

Her latest documentary “Working Dancers” (2016, 76′) has been presented in international and Greek festivals as well as in academic and non-academic workshops and conferences such as Imagination politique Laboratoire (University of Perugia-IT), Everyday Revolutions (UK), Movement for the National Dance Rights (ARG), Athens Video Dance Project 2019 (GR) and Dance Studies Association International Conference (University of Malta – Performing Arts).

Since 2015, upon her return to Athens, she has been participating in educational conferences and ethnographically based workshops at the most important contemporary dance festivals in Greece.She is a member of the educational and artistic organization ACA which focuses on gender through audiovisual projects (Buenos Aires) and since 2016, works for the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival as a member of the advisory committee.

Choreographer for the mAPs’ Italian team, Raffaele Irace, freelance choreographer and maitre de ballet, is currently program director for dance and performance at the Gallus Theater in Frankfurt, Germany. After an international career as a solo dancer in Germany, Italy, France, Tunisia, Macedonia, Turkey and Belgium, from 2008 to 2016 he directed his dance company and art project “The very secret dance society” in Turin.

From 2015 to 2018 he has been assistant to choreographer Jacopo Godani, director of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company in Germany, for which he continues to be a freelance artistic collaborator. In 2014 Raffaele Irace founded and directed “Solocoreografico”, Solo Dance Festival, a festival originally based in Turin ( Italy), that has now established a relevant international networks with programs in Frankfurt Germany, Oklahoma City US and Tunis Tunisia. In addition to the festival, Raffaele is also the creator of IMPRO_RING , a live platform that combines improvisation dance and proxemics.

He holds dance film to a high regard because it has potential to integrate these elements most organically and strives to give viewers sensations through their use. He works to catalyst audiences into thinking and acting.He has studied both filmmaking and acting to equip himself for the dance between camera and performer that is cinema.

His latest dance film Mudlove (2019) is a mudwrestling dance about hearts that unite and bodies that collide. Marrying music and motion with a twist of social commentary has been his main focus and trademark.