Why do piano players move so much?

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Like, swaying and twitching and making weird faces...

Awesome question because as a life-long musician, I can't tell you how many times I've been critiqued for showing no emotion while playing guitar/drums and piano. I think with piano, many extremely talented individuals are eccentric and progressively become more and more physically expressive while playing, especially since it's hard to convey the mood while sitting down whereas guitarists and vocalist have their entire bodies to convince people that something is tragically sad or very energetic. Anyway, my playing is often referred to as 'robotic' or 'uptight' and I have no natural inkling as to how I should move or react to really perform a piece of music. Oh well .

for the same reason that people dance. Music affects some people in such a way as to cause them to feel the urge to move their bodies. Also, making unusual faces is sometimes the outward sign of intense concentration.

Beethoven, for some reason or another, moved to 39 different apartments.

I find that most halfway decent pianists don't do that, because they can convey the emotional content of the music through their playing. Unless you're incompetent or playing crap music (or very cerebral music, in which case exaggerated emoting is even more wanky), it's not difficult.