Afro Promo 1# Kinglady

Past Dates

Dates Location

Apr 23, 2026

Institut Francais Senegal, Dakar, Senegal

Dec 11, 2025

Symposium, International Research Center Gender & Performativity, University of Music & Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria

Jul 23, 2024

Impulstanz Festival, Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, Austria

Oct 28, 2023

FAN - Festival de Arte Negra, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Jul 14, 2022

UArts MFA Symposium, Montpellier, France

May 07 - May 08, 2021

Infecting the City Festival, Cape Town, South Africa

Mar 19 - Apr 18, 2021

Spiers Light Arts Festival, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Mar 30, 2020

Prøverommet / Bit Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway

Mar 13, 2020

European Dance Network & Institute of Creative Arts, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Nov 18, 2019

Africana Dance Dramaturgies: How Do We Represent? Segal Theatre, The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA

Nov 07, 2019

Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

Jul 18, 2019

Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, Poland

Jul 11, 2019

Haba na Haba Dance Festival, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaHaba na Haba Dance Festival, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mar 20, 2019

Project X Change / Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Sep 25, 2018

CineMigrante Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jan 18, 2018

Screen Dance Miami Festival, Miami, FL, USA

May 03 - May 09, 2017

New York African Film Festival, New York, NY, USA

Feb 17 - Feb 19, 2017

Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa

Apr 14, 2016

Peak Performances, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA

Apr 12, 2016

Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA

“A masterful short film.”

— ArtsJournal / DanceBeat

 

“The set-up couldn’t be simpler, but these artists transform it into a magical world.”

— NJArts.net

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 State University

Running Time
11 Min

Director & Choreography nora chipaumire
Director of Photography Benjamin Seth Wolfe
Editor Alla Kovgan
Art Director Peter Born
Performers nora chipaumire, Shamar Watt

 

Unit Production Manager Anthony Pemberton
Costume Designer nora chipaumire
Wardrobe supervisor Juna Skenderi
Gaffer Eric Neason
1st Assistant Camera Melanie St. Clair
2nd Assistant Camera Jacob Shapiro
Grips Geoffrey Perez, Joseph Swelee, Ja’bri Rios-Rhodes
Producer Jedediah Wheeler
Production Manager Ryan Graves
Technical Director Colin van Horne
Production Crew Victoria Chirumbolo, Jeffrey Cierniak, Jason Flamos, Thomas Carey Gsell, Jesse Haack, Kaja Nelson, Christopher Ollo, Rocco Terranova, Steven Rust, Benjamin Weill
Production Assistants Gina Barbagallo, Emmanuel Class, Nicole Diglio, Emmanuel Paulino
Extras Mechi Brown, Joseph Galan, Sherissa Hernandez, Kelsey Johnson, Jenny Cosma
Colorist Nat Jencks
Foley/Narration Recording & Sound Mix Joseph Branciforte