nora chipaumire - in the field! the work, the research

Join Future Imagination Collaboratory researcher nora chipaumire for a screening of Open Studio — part of the Zimbabwean choreographer's current research for her new devised choreographic work, Dambudzo.The screening will be followed by a conversation with André Lepecki (Professor, Performance Studies, NYU) on dance, blackness, life, environment, anti-colonial struggles, art and more.

nora chipaumire was born in 1965 in what was then known as Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe). She is a product of colonial education for black native Africans - known as group B schooling - and is invested in knowledge acquisition and sharing outside of prescribed parameters. Her long-term research project “nhaka,” a technology-based practice and process to her artistic work which instigates and investigates the nature of black bodies and the products of their imaginations. “nhaka bhuku 1” has been published in 2020 at the courtesy of Matadero Publishing House (Spain). She is a four-time Bessie Award winner and recipient of the 2016 Trisha Mckenzie Memorial Award for her impact on the dance community in Zimbabwe, among many other awards, residencies, and fellowships in the US, Europe and Africa.

chipaumire’s current work includes “NOT waiting,” a wordless live cinema play, the installation “afternow” (2022), and the devised choreographic work “Dambudzo” (2024).

PHOTOS CREDIT BY: Marie Staggat

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

721 Broadway, Richard Schechner Studio, Room 612, 721 Broadway, New York, United States