Artist in Residence at The International Dance Program in Stockholm, 1 December 2025–27 February 2026

Linnéa Sonka is a dancer, choreographer, director and film editor based in Stockholm. Her artistic practice moves in the border between dance, film and political activism. With a particular focus on House culture in dance, as a social movement and artistic form, she investigates how movement can function as a political and poetic act. Through dance, film and collaborations between different art forms, she creates works that challenge norms, make power structures visible and give voice to stories that are often marginalized in social debate. Her works take the form of stage productions, short films, performative interventions and projects in public space – where the boundaries between art and activism are blurred. In the crossing between dance, film and graphic form, she explores new ways of telling, depicting and sharing experiences through the perspective of the body.

Linnéa Sonka

Linnéa’s ongoing work revolves around questions of gender, violence, emotional repression and social norms, where dance becomes a tool for both protest and healing. During her time as a resident in the international dance program, she will continue working on the project DETESTED – which began as a short film in 2024 – that highlights gender-based violence and the mechanisms that constitute the normalization process. The work will be transformed into a stage performance and become a compressed version that will function in performative interventions in public space. In parallel, she is working on the project Faultline, a dance film that examines how patriarchal structures affect men’s relationship to emotions, violence and identity, which will premiere in December 2025. Central to Linnéa’s artistic practice is a desire to create space for dialogue, community and reflection – both in the meeting with the audience and in the collective processes behind the works.

Since 2024, Linnéa has also run the association Kultiverse together with the dance artist Rebecca Livaniou. Kultiverse is a mobile cultural center that works to make art and culture accessible outside of traditional institutions. The association is based on the belief in the power of art to create change and that carries a clear vision: to build new cultural places for community, creativity and diversity. Kultiverse is more than a cultural center – it is a movement for a more open, more democratic and vibrant cultural life.