Experience the transdisciplinary performance of Mobéy Lola Irizarry!
March 26, 2025 - 5:00pm
Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (CFA 111)
Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer cultural worker in the realms of salsa, bomba and transdisciplinary performance. They will perform a solo set featuring congas, maracas, voice and electronics to bring you an experience unlike one you’ve seen before!
Free dumplings will be served as refreshment!
Origins
Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mobéy Lola Irizarry hails from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, Conn., and is a citizen of the Chickasaw nation. She makes within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and the precolonial languages of the drum and the braid. Irizarry is the creative director and conguere for Las Mariquitas, New York City’s queer and trans salsa band. They play in the experimental performance trio Dendarry Bakery and the Latin rock group Avatareden. They compose for Samora la Perdida’s “Spanglish Sh!t” musical and are an alumnus of Emergenyc. Lola is quoted in Rolling Stone magazine saying, “I want to abolish patriarchy in salsa … this is a duty to our lineage.”
Irizarry has performed with such artists and ensembles as Gladstone Deluxe, Samira Mendoza, George Emilio Sanchez, Aani Kisslinger, Combo Chimbita, Bombayo and many others. They have performed and presented original work at Lincoln Center, Abrons Arts Center, The Shed, the Denver Art Museum, the “Sovereign Futures” conference, and many other venues across the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada and Cuba.
Presented by the Center for the Arts In Society (CAS) Hospitality Initiative and sponsored by: CAS and the Dietrich College Department of Languages, Culture, & Applied Linguistics.