Olivia Rivière and Lisen Pousette form a choreographic duo based between Copenhagen and Stockholm. Both coming from a classically trained choir background, have been exploring the embodiment of extended vocal practices since the beginning of their collaboration in 2017. Their work has a somatic approach as its entry point and looks to screw and expand the gendered voice through its materiality, affective potentials and reach. Drawn to visceral expressions such as growling and screaming variations, they move through different modes and moods of intensity, creating situations that are responsive and seek for resonance.

Together, they have created the duet Ever losing (2019), the group piece DUNKEL (2022) and the duet Spiritus (2024). Their works have been presented at venues such as MDT (Sweden), Weld (Sweden), Dansehallerne (Denmark), Black Box Theatre (Norway), Norbergfestival (Sweden), Les Urbaines (Switzerland), Uferstudios (Germany), Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (Austria) and the gallery Shower (South Korea).

Olivia is based in Copenhagen and has for the past ten years collectively run the space DANSEatelier, exploring new modes of exchange that can enhance our senses of collective thinking and interdependent living. She holds an MA in choreography from Exerce, Centre chorégraphique national (CCN) Montpellier.

Lisen is based in Stockholm and holds an MA in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts, graduating in 2019. She’s a member of the artist-run space höjden, a collegial platform for autonomous production and artistic exchange. In 2024, she participated in the danceWEB Scholarship Programme in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. In 2025, she’s taking part in the choreographic training programme ATLAS, also in the frame of ImPulsTanz.

When Olivia Rivière and Lisen Pousette met at the age of eleven at choir school in Stockholm, they couldn’t have known the paths their shared interest in the voice and all things choir would eventually lead them: in their group piece DUNKEL, a “choreographic choir” of six performers explores “growling” – a throat-singing technique rooted in the metal scene – grounding the voice deep in the body and propelling it outward with ecstatic force. Yet DUNKEL does not dwell solely in raw intensity; instead, it traces the fragility and subtlety of the voice and the sounding body, creating a resonant, entangled space where voices move beyond the individual. A performance the duo calls “both doomsday-doom and as light as a down duvet” – oscillating between heaviness and airiness, between the intimate and the eruptive.

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