In InTension, we meet Rebecca Livaniou in a dance solo that moves in multiple directions at once, without revealing its logic in advance. The work explores how the body navigates pressure, visibility, and vulnerability – and how tension can be transformed into freedom and presence.
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Inspired by her experiences from the hip-hop battle scene – where something is at stake in every moment – she creates a captivating physical monologue in which each movement carries its own energy and intensity.
Just beneath the surface, an inner motion can be sensed, where contradictions and subtle shifts make themselves known. Moods and emotions gradually change, opening up a more ambiguous state. Here, it is not about defeating someone else, but about overcoming one’s doubts and taking space – in front of others and oneself.
Through InTension, Livaniou will use the residency to deepen choreographic research and expand the movement vocabulary, refining material through improvisation, emotional mapping, and structured physical tasks. InTension will continue its development phase in 2025-26 with support from Swedish partners, in cluding a planned tour with Riksteatern in 2026. This HAUT-residency is an essential step in developing the choreographic and sound-based dimensions of the piece before that stage.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
During the residency, Livaniou will collaborate closely with music producer and sound designer Kevin Wedin (“12twevle”) and dancer Eshidoreen Paradiso. Together, they create a shifting space in which the dance becomes something to reflect oneself in.
CREDITS:
Kevin Wedin / 12Twelve
Eshidoreen Paradiso
BIOS:
Rebecca Livaniou is a dancer and choreographer whose artistic practice is rooted in hip hop, street, and club dances. Active in the Swedish battle and hip hop scene since 2011, she has made a strong mark both in Scandinavia and abroad. Her work moves fluidly between stage performance and hip hop culture.
Alongside this foundation, her work is shaped by the embodied experience of in-betweenness and the longing for belonging, informed by her perspective as a Black artist born and raised in Sweden. Through movement, she explores how the body carries histories of displacement and pressure – not only to listen to them, but to face, release, and transform them into rhythm, form, and presence. Improvisation and embodied research are central to her practice, serving as tools to access physical memory and emotional states.
Recent works include Souls of Freedom (2023), an international collaboration between dancers in Norway and the Netherlands, and InTension (ongoing), her first solo piece exploring performance under pressure (Stockholm Fringe Festival 2024, Best Emerging Artist Award).
Livaniou is also co-founder of Kultiverse, a mobile cultural platform that brings art into public and community spaces, fostering accessibility, collaboration, and cross-cultural dialogue.
In recent years, she has worked as a co-creating dancer in productions such as Deep Leap, Sweet & Sticky and SEARCH by Lisa Janbell, and Mould With Me by Anastasija Olescuka. In addition,
she has been a guest dancer with Cullberg and has participated in several artistic research
processes.
Kevin Wedin, also known as 12Twelve, is a Stockholm-based producer and live performer creating hip-hop music. Using hardware such as the MPC Live 3, Moog Sub 37, SP404/303/606, Hydrasynth, and bass guitar, he builds raw, rhythmic soundscapes guided by intuition and experimentation.
His music is closely connected to the dance and battle scene, with tracks regularly played in classes, showcases, and events internationally. Since beginning his musical journey in 2021 after years in hip-hop dance culture, he has released music reaching audiences in Japan, the US, France, the UK, Australia, South America, and Italy.
Alongside independent releases on Bandcamp and SoundCloud, Kevin creates music for performances and live productions, including collaborations with dancers, DJs, and artists in Sweden and abroad. He has performed live in Stockholm and Paris, recently played a two-hour set at Kulturhuset featuring entirely new material as well as currently collaborating on InTension with Rebecca Livaniou.
His artistic vision is to continue developing a unique sound through live performance, sound design, international collaborations, and music created for artists, clubs, performing arts, and dance communities worldwide.
Eshidoreen Paradiso is a dance artist rooted in hip-hop, street, and club dances. She is active both in the battle scene and on stage and is part of the Oslo based collective B16. She has enjoyed participating in events such as Hip Hop Weekend, Vortex Jam, and Soul Cypher.
In recent years, Paradiso has increasingly focused on performance and theatrical work, developing her artistic voice through collaborations and dance productions such as Perspectives, Jam, and Loop. Her first work-in-progress, Uhuru, was presented at Dansens hus together with Aaliyah and earlier in 2026 she showed Mazungumzo at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet during Soul sessions encounters. Eshidoreen Paradiso will be a part of the research for InTension as a dancer and someone to test ideas with during this IN PROCESS residency.
IN PROCESS is HAUT's 1-2 week residency format, which provides space for physical brainstorming sessions that support the exploration and development of new ideas in the performing arts. This residency is co-curated by Marie Kaae.