Hanna Lappalainen

Hanna Lappalainen (they/them) Edinburgh, UK
Hanna Lappalainen is a movement artist, performer and filmmaker based in Edinburgh. Their practice is rooted in improvisational movement and speech, a form of embodied storytelling often drawing from personal memory. In recent years, much of their performance work has focused on creating and touring shows for children. They're also a part of the Neuk Collective and facilitate participatory movement work and screendance projects, aiming to centre diverse bodies and experiences. Lappalainen often works with themes of identity, language and the performer-audience relationship. Neurospicy, chronically achy and working-class to boot, their work cannot help but be informed by the confluence of various marginalised experiences. They still attempt to make it at least a little bit funny.