Shirley Harthey Ubilla 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. Abjection, exaggeration, erotica and humor are cornerstones in their work.
As a nonbinary butch dyke of color, they are highly aware of the fact that bodies matter, and this is something that drives their body of work. Harthey Ubilla’s work explores the in-between state; when something is on the verge of transforming into something else, questioning what the boundaries are and what happens when they are about to dissolve. It encourages an overlap between the imaginary, the gut feeling, and the flesh and blood. Shirley strongly believes that the making of art is a fragile, fierce and a badass way of figuring out how to live in the world!
Project: A badass drag performance, Marimachi embraces cultural narratives that emerge from the Latin American heritage found in popular culture and is a vibrant declaration of butch/trans identity, celebrating liberation and self-determination.