Zimbabwe’s Struggle Inspires Dancer

nora chipaumire grew up in Zimbabwe, a nation ruled for the last 28 years by a man President Bush calls a “discredited dictator.” Now living in the U.S., chipaumire is using her country’s past and present struggles to inspire her on the stage. Interview by Rachel Martin

About nora chipaumire

Zimbabwe-born choreographer, a dancer of extraordinary presence and visceral power, re-thinks the way bodies transmit ancient, tribal, ethnic, colonial, modern, and post-modern cultural information, igniting the dialogue between performer and audience. Interview by Irene Borger