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...
ShebeenDUB
ShebeenDUB is a performance by nora chipaumire with a group of dancers performing “within” the afternow sound system installation. It is usually combined with a Dubnight. Part gig, part dance performance, part social, ShebeenDUB celebrates the creative and law-defying possibilities of dub, a musical style that emerged in the late 60s and early 70s –… Continue reading ShebeenDUB
NEHANDA
protest, legal gathering, world making. 1890, Cecil John Rhodes, then Prime Minister of Cape Colonies, advanced the Union Jack past the Limpopo River, making way for further industrial development and encouraging colonialism and immigration. Three years later, these encounters resulted in conflicts with the Ndebele people residing in modern-day Zimbabwe. Again in 1896, led by… Continue reading NEHANDA
NOT waiting (Film)
Picasso Dance — “NOT waiting” Zimbabwean choreographer nora chipaumire and French-Senegalese dancer Germaine Acogny re-approach Picasso’s landmark Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by grounding it in African cultural and artistic contexts. Through minimal choreography set against the landscape near Dakar, the short film connects movement, earth, wind, and human breath, questioning how Picasso’s legacy can be...
NOT waiting…
Choreographers nora chipaumire and Germaine Acogny put forth an act of refusal, of intergenerational conversation and transmission, and of sorority and solidarity—a political statement and gesture that promotes ongoing practices found in Senegal and Zimbabwe. Drawing inspiration from the history of the Lébou community and the central place that women have in the traditional Ndeup… Continue reading NOT waiting…
gadzi
In this new work, nora chipaumire draws on the legends, stones and soil of her native country, Zimbabwe. The artist shares, ‘gadzi (shortened from gadziguru) is the oldest female being and a creative force tied to the legends of Shona people. She is connected to sacred places in our country: domboramwari, Great Zimbabwe, Matopos and… Continue reading gadzi
Nhaka
In an era when study, knowledge, and the role of the university as a place to gather are being questioned and queried, one could also ask: what about the artist as guest in these fundamental institutions? What is expected from them, what should their role be? How does the artist enhance the interrogations and make… Continue reading Nhaka