Nora Chipaumire
Chimurenga
Apr 30 – May 3 at 7:30pm
Coffee and Conversation Pre-Show Talk: Apr 30 at 6:30pm with Charmaine Warren
Post-Show Talk Apr 30 with Brian McCormick
Student Matinee May 2 at 12pm
Coffee and Conversation Pre-Show Talk: Apr 30 at 6:30pm with Charmaine Warren
Post-Show Talk Apr 30 with Brian McCormick
Student Matinee May 2 at 12pm
Nora Chipaumire is known for provocative and politically relevant dances that illuminate the struggles of human identity in an increasingly borderless world. Chimurenga, a post-revolution solo, uses movement, film, text, and sound installation to confront the personal and collective trauma of surviving Zimbabwe’s second war of liberation. Featuring the music of Thomas Mapfumo, this multimedia performance memoir moves from recollections of a childhood filled with violence into a celebration of life.
- Chimurenga received commissioning support from the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning Program of Dance Theater Workshop with support from the Jerome Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. Chimurenga is supported, in part, by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Judy and Steven Gluckstern through the David R. White Producers Circle.