About
Marit-Shirin is a dance maker with her base in Umeå/Ubmeje, Sápmi. She has a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Stockholm University of the Arts and has worked professionally as a dancer in Belgium, Austria, Japan, Germany, Greece, Denmark, and Iceland since 2015.
Her artistic practice includes dance, as a way of creating relation - especially our fragile relationship to earth. She aims to connect performative practices to theoretical methods, such as writing and researching through her own embodied knowledge as an Indigenous person. Other practices such as meditation deriving from a zen-philosophy is also a big part of her daily, bodily reflection, and has worked in Japan between 2017-2019 to study meditation and Ainu Indigenous lifeways.
Through her research, practice, and international collaborations on her long-term project, Humans & Soil, Shirin has immersed herself in our relationship to the earth we walk on and decolonial relationships between Indigenous peoples and performing arts.
Photo by Arnaud Beleen, ‘Crude Saturdays’ at Tic Tac Art Centre, Brussels
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EDUCATION
2020 - 2021 - Stockholm University of the Arts M.A in Fine Arts specializing in International Performing Arts
2012 - 2015 - Stockholm University of the Arts (DOCH) B.A in Dance Performance
2010 - 2011 - Listaháskóli Íslands, Reykjavík. Contemporary Dance Programme
SOLO UTSTÄLLNINGAR/SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Solo performance at Weld
”Deleting White Spaces”2022 - “Firebird” Butoh digital performance, Sapporo, Japan.
2020-2022 - Improvised Dance Solos, Tic Tac Art Centre, Brussels
2020 - Solo performance at Dellie Maa, Indigenous Art & Film Festival, Tärnaby
2019 - “Humans & Soil” Solo version, Sapporo Pirka Kotan, Hokkaido, Japan
2019 - Odolabo おどらお, International Dance Festival, Osaka, Japan
2018 - L’argonne Circus Collective Studio, Brussels, Belgium.
2018 - “Humans & Soil” Solo edition, Globala Veckan, Linköping, Sweden
2018 - “The Female Samurai” ARTSPACE stift/Netzwerk Aks, Millstatt, Austria
2017 - “The Female Samurai” Folk & Kultur, Eskilstuna Sweden
2017 - “The Femaile Samurai” Kanna Fall Art Festival, Onishi, Japan
2017 - “The Female Samurai” Municipal Art Innovation Centre, Osaka, Japan
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK
2023 - “Jarkelidh” Comissioned work by Riksteatern, Sweden
2022 - “of itself : in itself” National tour, Dance Net Sweden
2022 - “of itself : in itself”, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Sweden
2021 - “of itself : in itself” Comissioned work by Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden
2021 - “Come rain or shine, We will dance!” Dansprogrammet, Riksteatern Stockholm
2020 - Work-in-progress “of itself : in itself” Ubmejen Biejvieh, Samiska veckan, Umeå, Sweden
LECTURES
2023 - Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Sweden
2022 - Co-lecture, Decolonizing Seminar with Thuy Nguyen, Royal Academy of Music Stockholm
2021 - Lecture/Panel discussion, ReThink Festival, with CEMiPoS, Liv Aira, Marika Renhuvud, Katazyna Pastuszak, Norrlandsoperan Umeå
2021 - Lecture, Humans & Soil, Deleting White Spaces, Weld Stockholm
2020 - Presentation, Humans & Soil, Cullberg Dance Company ‘Explorations of Now’
2020 - Presentation, Humans & Soil, Discourses in Dancing Democracy OSCO, Hannover
2019 - Presentation, Humans & Soil, Barents Dance Council, Luleå
2019 - Presentation, Humans & Soil, Sapporo School of Freedom, Hokkaido Japan
2019 - Presentation, Humans & Soil, Såhkie - Umeå Sameförening, Umeå
2019 - Presentation, Humans & Soil, Galleri Tegen, Stockholm
2019 - Presentation, Humans & Soil, Dellie Maa, Indigenous Art & Film Festval, Tärnaby
RESIDENCIES
2023 - SITE Sweden, Garage 29 Brussels with “No Friend but the Mountains”
2021 - Dansens Hus produktionsresidens, Stockholm
2021 - Norrlandsoperan, Dans i Västerbotten.
2020 - Norrlandsoperan and Dearna, Tärnaby, Dans i Västerbotten Umeå
2020 - Dansinitiativet, Luleå
2020 - NPO S-Air, Sapporo Artist In Residency, Japan
2020 - Riksteatern, Hallunda “of itself : in itself” Humans & Soil 2020 - Dans i Västerbotten, Folkets Hus Tärnaby
2019 - AIRY Artist in Residence, Yamanashi, Japan Humans & Soil 2019 - Tenjinyama Studios, Sapporo, Japan Humans & Soil
2019 - Northern Sustainable Futures, Moskosel, Sweden Humans & Soil
2018 - Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sweden Humans & Soil
2018 - ARTSPACE Stift/Netzwerk Aks, Millstatt, Austria “The Female Samurai” 2017 - Shiro Oni Studios, Onishi, Japan “The Female Samurai”
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Marit Shirin and Paz in the project ‘No friend but the Mountains’
Photo by Arnaud Beleen