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 –...
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:...
Miriam
With Miriam, nora chipaumire created her first character-driven work—a deeply personal dance-theater performance that reverberates with tensions: between public expectations and private desires, between objectification and power, and between darkness and light. Miriam invites the audience into an immersive experience of being an outsider, requiring the engagement of all five senses. The inspiration for Miriam…...
R̶i̶t̶e̶ Riot
In this solo inspired by the iconic The Rite of Spring, celebrating its centenary in the same year, nora chipaumire explored the contemporary demands for sacrifice, embodied in performance and by the performer. The genesis of rite riot began with chipaumire’s fascination with The Rite of Spring and the role it played in the European art… Continue reading R̶i̶t̶e̶ Riot
dark swan
The award-winning dark swan was first created as a solo in 2005 by and for nora chipaumire. The work has grown into a much-celebrated group work and has been performed by the NYC-based Urban Bush Women, amongst others. Tumbuka Dance Company was the first African contemporary dance company to perform this work. dark swan… Continue reading dark swan
Afro Promo 1# Kinglady
Afro Promo #1 Kinglady is an Afro-Feminist manifesto beautifying bodies to claim the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Using a low-tech—do-it-yourself aesthetics, this short film demonstrates how presence, fashion, and pop culture can be a vehicle for self-invention and self-determination. Premiere Date April 14, 2016 Premiere Venue Peak Performances, Montclair… Continue reading Afro Promo...
portrait of myself as my fa̶t̶h̶e̶r̶
Zimbabwe-born Brooklyn-based dance maker chipaumire continues her investigations on the black body, on Africa, on aesthetics and on art and ideas. portrait of myself as my father takes place in a simulated boxing ring in which chipaumire and Senegalese dancer Pape Ibrahima Ndiaye, also known as Kaolack (who performed with Compagnie Jant-Bi for many years),… Continue reading portrait of myself as my fa̶t̶h̶e̶r̶
#PUNK 100%POP*N!GGA
#PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA (verbalized as “hashtag punk, one hundred percent pop, starnigga”) is a three-part live performance album inspired by chipaumire’s formative years in Zimbabwe and the energy and rebellion of punk and 1980s New Wave music. Each part explores one of three sonic ideologies: Punk, Pop, and Congolese Rumba (in that order), which… Continue reading #PUNK 100%POP*N!GGA
afternow
nora chipaumire’s groundbreaking approach to movement goes beyond the formalistic; the renowned artist refers to dance as an “animist technology”—a means of discovering the sentience of the physical body. Drawing from decades of experience as a choreographer, as well as her own biography witnessing the independence of Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe—chipaumire seeks to move beyond a diagnosis… Continue reading...