Olivia Rivière (SE) is a choreographer and dancer based in Copenhagen. In her practice she works with the sonorous body and alternative vocal-techniques exploring the materiality of emotions, our private things and their sensorial influence. This has been played out in solo and co-works like Might Seem Vacant (2016) In sync – sung (2017), Ever Losing (2019), DUNKEL and Shriller (2022).
Since graduating from the Danish School of Performing Arts (2015) Olivia has run the space DANSEatelier together with a group of eleven choreographers and dancers. DANSEatelier works critically towards alternative modes of production and togetherness in the field of dance. Their work moves from large-scale to DIY, shapeshifting between festivals, performance evenings, study-groups and individual practice. At the moment they collaborate with institutions such as Den Frie Udstillingsbygning and Inkonst in their collective performance format TRIPTYKON.
As dancer and co-choreographer Olivia has worked with choreographers/visual artists such as Sara Gebran, Marie Topp, Jules Fisher, Robin Johnsson and Anna Moderato and together with choreographer/musician Karis Zidore, Olivia teaches choreographic sound compositions at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art School of Architecture and the Rhythmic Music Conservatory.
