Shirley Harthey Ubilla

Yet Familiar

"Yet Familiar" by Shirley Harthey Ubilla

Photo: Märta Thisner

We 10.11.2021, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Th 11.11.2021, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Fr 12.11.2021, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Sa 13.11.2021, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Me listening to Drake singing that he’s a lesbian too. Or remembering that very special kiss in that very special place. Or the sweet smell of sopaipillas pasadas. Pleasure is a feeling of satisfaction and enjoyment derived from what is to one’s liking.


In this new piece, Hanna and Shirley continue to discuss race and lesbianism through the abject but in a vulnerable rather than threatening form. In contrast to Shirley’s last solo (where otherness and becoming were discussed through the monstrous) you are now being invited to a playful and fragile distortion. An analogue reality with fragments of (sur)real and pleasurable memories. Fragile and fatale, clinching on to its future shapes, imagine a fictional self  whose physical abilities are extended beyond human limitations. Fragmentary and fleeting, fun and freaky. They are strange, yet familiar.

Shirley Harthey Ubilla

Shirley Harthey Ubilla (b.1986) is a Chilean-Swedish performer and choreographer based in Estocolmo. Their choreographic work focuses on dyke desires, latinidad, warping structures of power, and queer realness. As a nonbinary butch dyke of color, they are highly aware of the fact that bodies matter, and this is something that drives all of their artistic work. 

 

Abjection, exaggeration, erotica, and humor are cornerstones found in their work. Shirley's interest in exploring the in-between state; when something is on the verge of being transformed into something else, is ongoing. They believe that this space has the potential to make us question what boundaries are and what happens when they are about to dissolve. A common thread in their work has been to seek and develop practices that speak of resistance with emancipatory possibilities. They constantly aim to decolonize gender. Shirley strongly believes that making art is a fragile, fierce, and badass way of figuring out how to live in the world!

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This presentation is made possible thanks to Life Long Burning, Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe project (2018-2022) supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

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