nora chipaumire

nora chipaumire, a Black African woman takes the stage in 100% POP with her collaborator, Shamar Watt, a Black Jamaican man in a black Adidas tracksuit and red-green-yellow, Zimbabwe-flag-colored Nike shoes. As he runs through the frame upstage, backgrounded by a grungy, urban wall, chipaumire captures the camera’s focus as she jumps into the air, one knee tucked up to her chest, the other a foot off the ground. Wearing a ripped white shirt, black track pants, and all-white high tops, chipaumire gazes down at the ground while she leaps up, as if stomping her way back to Earth.
Photo: Ian Douglas
  • Interviews

The West Did Not Make Me

ankita

An Interview with nora chipaumire

ora chipaumire, a black woman with short hair and the creator of Dambudzo, is in the foreground wearing a black t-shirt and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed as another cast member sings into the background, amidst several audience members.
Photo: Jonathan Stein
  • Reviews

Chi Buku

E. Wallis Cain Carbonell

“We know all about you. You are here to know about us.”

Photo: Ian Douglas
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chipaumire: Unlimit Freedom

Carolyn Merritt

'Freedom is not on Facebook. Get off fucking Instagram. True liberation is a process of deep work.'

Photo: Foto Robisco
  • Reviews

Call Me #PUNK

Hannah Pearl

Joy, rage, freedom, and chains in nora chipaumire's latest dance.

Photo: Chris Cameron
  • Reviews

The Ruthless Beauty of Masculinity

Julius Ferraro

Charming, magnetic, grotesque, doomed.

Photo: Elise FitteDuval
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nora chipaumire’s Brave and Daring Portrait

Janna Meiring

Audaciously tipping to the extremes of African masculinity to up-end stereotype