Otto Akkanen (Helsinki/Leipzig) is a dancer, body worker and osteopath. Otto has danced Contact Improvisation and improvisation for more than 20 years, taught CI for over 14 years and finds it still hugely interesting and inspiring. He holds a BA in Social Work (2001), a dance diploma from Outokumpu (2006), an MA in Contemporary Dance Education from Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt (2015) and BA in Ostepathy (2024).