Les femmes Africaines (sisters, wives, mothers, artists)— music from women’s hearts and hands
With this musical performance, nora chipaumire revisits and develops, alongside five women belonging to the Lébou community from the village of Toubab Dialaw, in Senegal, the score from her piece NOT waiting…devised in 2023 with the choreographer Germaine Acogny. The will to honour the work, value, sound and creativity of African women finds its expression in… Continue reading Les femmes Africaines (sisters,...
KADIST – Résidence Tallard
From September 5 to 27, 2026, KADIST’s Résidence Tallard hosts the dancer, choreographer and performer nora chipaumire. For her Paris residency, the artist will develop a period of research, encounters, and conversations around embodiment, memory, and post-colonial imaginaries. Conceived as a space of work as much as of hospitality, the residency accompanies the different strands… Continue reading KADIST –...
The Movies That Get Dancers on Their Feet
Savion Glover, Honey Balenciaga and other artists from the world of performance share their favorites, from era-defining musicals to art-house dramas.
Artist Talk: Afrovibes with nora chipaumire
About the talk: nora chipaumire makes work and creates ideas that straddle multiple imaginaries — African, black, woman. A life lived through aesthetics informed by refusal, defiance, negotiation, contradictions and more. These refusals take form of movement, objects, non objects, manifestos, sound and building a pedagogical practice (nhaka) that works the present now with the present… Continue reading Artist Talk:...
Dramatic Recipe: Four Choreographers, Dozens of Students, Moody Scores
By Claudia La Rocco
nora chipaumire and Thomas Mapfumo at the August Wilson Center
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nora chipaumire at the Kelly-Strayhorn
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Prime Movers
Dance Alloy Theater takes pride in stepping over the line By Bill O’Driscoll
nora chipaumire – ‘The body is not mute’
For the 2026 Infinities Commission, artist nora chipaumire presents gadzi, a sculptural installation that draws on the legends, stones and soil of her native country, Zimbabwe. In the artist’s own words, ‘gadzi is the oldest female being and a creative force tied to the legends of Shona people. She is connected to sacred places in… Continue reading nora chipaumire – ‘The body is not mute’
When Styles Converge and Diverge
By Roslyn Sulcas