Nora Chipaumire

Nora Chipaumire was born in 1965 in what was then known as Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe). She studied law at the University of Zimbabwe and dance at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her long-term research project “nhaka,” a technology-based practice and process to her artistic work, investigates the nature of black bodies and the products of their imaginations. She has been featured in several dance films and made her directorial debut with the short film “Afro Promo #1 King Lady” (2016). She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.