Marit-Shirin Carolasdotter

Marit-Shirin Carolasdotter is a dance maker with a 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. Through her research, practice, and international collaborations on her long-term project “Humans and Soil”, Shirin has immersed herself in our relationship to the Earth we walk on and decolonial relationships between Indigenous peoples and the performing arts.