100% POP | In Conversation With nora chipaumire

In Rome for the Short Theatre festival 2019, she and her team (Atiyyah Khan, from Sud Africa, and Pape Ibrahima Ndiaye a.k.a. ‘Kaolack’, from Senegal) are set to perform 100% POP, part of her newest three-part piece #PUNK 100% POP *NIGGA (verbalized as hash tag punk, one hundred percent pop, star nigga), for the first… Continue reading 100% POP | In Conversation With nora chipaumire

Part gig, part dance performance, part social – nora chipaumire discusses ShebeenDUB at Dance Umbrella Festival

nora chipaumire is an award-winning Zimbabwean choreographer. As a prolific artist who has presented her work in an array of mediums and settings, chipaumire has an exciting library of work that ranges from opera to live performance albums. As she now gears up to co-present her new work ShebeenDUB at this year’s Dance Umbrella Festival,… Continue reading Part gig, part dance performance, part social – nora...

The West Did Not Make Me

As a longtime admirer of nora chipaumire’s work–its raw power, nuanced politics, rigorous physicality, and distinctly non-Western storytelling–I was thrilled when she agreed to chat about her journey and process as a performing artist. This is an excerpt of our full conversation, all the way from Zimbabwe to New York.  By Ankita Sharma

Top Five: nora chipaumire

The recipient of this year’s Infinities Commission tells us what’s on her radar. Infinities Commission: nora chipaumire, Tate Modern, 3 June – 26 August

Inside nora chipaumire’s radical new Tate Modern commission

For her monumental new commission gadzi, nora chipaumire transforms Tate Modern’s East Tanks into a space of ritual and radical imagination. The artist speaks to Nicolas Vamvouklis about spirituality, colonial institutions and why performance should disrupt accepted limits. By Nicolas Vamvouklis