nora chipaumire

Born in 1965, nora chipaumire is a dancer and choreographer from Mutare in Zimbabwe, who lives between Berlin, New York and Harare. She studied dance in Africa, Cuba and Jamaica before settling in New York, where she composes and performs "live art": an art made up of the living and which itself takes on a living form, seeking in the body in movement a development of expression that languages seem to limit. Since her first piece Chimurenga in 2003, nora chipaumire has been keen to combine aesthetics with politics, evoking colonial issues including the history of black bodies. She also explores the field of cinema. Her work (Dark Swan, Portrait of Myself as my Father, Rite Riot, etc.) has won her numerous awards in the United States, including three Bessie Awards and the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. 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 works have been presented at the Théâtre de la Ville, Les Subsistances in Lyon and the Centre National de la Danse.