Carina Henriksson is a passion- and vision-driven multidisciplinary artist and cultural producer who moves freely between music, theatre, and literature.

As a singer, actor, director, composer, playwright, and cultural activist, she brings art and storytelling together in boundary-crossing and interdisciplinary expressions that resonate — in multiple languages and across all borders.

Raised in Lainio, based in Piteå, and with roots in a double minority - Tornedalian and Sámi - she weaves the personal with the universal, bringing our multicultural soil and Arctic cultural heritage to life through multilingual performing arts and lectures.

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Carina has received multiple awards for her innovative artistic work, giving local stories a global voice - and global stories a strong local grounding.

 

Under her alter ego GlesbygdsDivan - also the name of her production company - she collaborates with Opera Vildmark, Arctic Artist, and other northern-based actors to create regionally rooted performing arts where our stories, languages, voices, and identities are given space - both locally and on larger stages.

 

Within the community dance project MOVIN’, Carina takes on the role of project manager.

 

Photo: Mattias Löw

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Linda Remahl is a dance artist, an arts and culture facilitator and the artistic coordinator of MOVIN’, based in Arvidsjaur. She works at the intersection of art art, place, and society, where movement becomes a language for encounters and participation.

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Central to her practice are artistic processes that grow out of human encounters, through what makes our hearts resonate, sets thoughts in motion, and moves us collectively. She is driven by creating structures that enable collaboration between artists, communities, and places, and by building spaces where new expressions and forms can emerge.

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She founded Moskosel Creative Lab, a creative meeting place in the village of Moskosel with accommodation and studios for residencies, performances, and artistic encounters, as well as iM Konsthall - a mobile gallery where digital and spatial experiences take centre stage.

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As an artist, she works transdisciplinarily at the intersection of dance, film, and sound. She explores the interplay between body, space, and storytelling in both physical and digital environments, from immersive, site-specific experiences and interactive installations to traditional stage settings, often in dialogue with place and people.

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Her work is rooted in rural contexts, where the stories of place meet co-creative processes in collaboration with other artists and communities, both locally and globally.

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Through MOVIN’, she works to cultivate encounters where dance becomes a shared foundation for community, and where choreography emerges from movement, place, and the people who share it

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Foto: Simon Eliasson

Paloma Madrid is a transdisciplinary choreographer, contemporary performer, flamenco dancer, and dance educator who moves between art, healing, digital media, and social practice. Her work explores the politics of the body, the poetics of care, and the collective power of dance to heal, transform, and connect.

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Within the MOVIN’ initiative in Norrbotten during autumn 2025 and 2026, she will take on the role of lecturer, mentor, and inspirer, with a focus on the participatory community dance processes that take place between dance artists, participants, and researchers.

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She was Artistic Director of Dance at BC Botkyrka Community Theatre & Dance between 2008 and 2011, where she during that time and subsequently created around twenty works in close dialogue with local communities and dancers. Between 2019 and 2024, she ran Rosales Dance Company and Platform, an artistic initiative that brought together dance, the body’s politics of resistance, and community.

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Today, she leads the dance company Mar Lobos, where she explores the healing potential of oxytocin in relation to her practice as a doula and choreographer. In her work, she weaves together movement, intuition, and science in choreographies that engage with life’s most human experiences - birth, love, grief, and recovery.

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Paloma has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Marina Abramović, Belén Maya, and Deborah Hay, as well as with institutions including Riksteatern, Dramaten, and several international partners.

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Through her artistic practice, she invites people to share experiences, create meaningful movement, and discover dance as a living, transformative force in everyday life.