nora chipaumire

Born in 1965, nora chipaumire is a dancer and choreographer from Mutare, Zimbabwe, who lives between Berlin, New York and Harare. She studied dance in Africa, Cuba and Jamaica before moving to New York, where she began creating and performing live art: work made out of life that takes on a living form itself, seeking through the moving body a range of expression that languages seem to limit. From her first piece, Chimurenga, in 2003, chipaumire has brought aesthetics and politics together, addressing colonial issues and the history of Black bodies. Her practice also extends into film. Her works, including Dark Swan, Portrait of Myself as My Father and Rite Riot, have earned her numerous awards in the United States, among them three Bessie Awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. In 2023, she was invited to the Festival d’Automne for the first time with her opera Nehanda, for which she received the Grand Prix de la Danse de Montréal. In France, her work has been presented at Théâtre de la Ville, Les Subsistances in Lyon and the Centre National de la Danse.