Three films by choreographer, dancer and Guggenheim fellow nora chipaumire confront questions around gender, colonisation and African self-determination: the raw concert #PUNK, inspired by rock icon Patti Smith and once again insisting on the Sex Pistols’ liberatingly hopeless claim that there’s “NO FUTURE”, the “play without words” NOT waiting (a collaboration with the grande dame of African Dance, Germaine Acogny), and the Afro-feminist manifesto Afro Promo #1 Kinglady about a female African superhero that rules over space and time.
#PUNK (2020)
A film by Ari Marcopoulos
Concept, text, movement, and vocals: nora chipaumire
Movement and vocals: Shamar Watt
Guitar: David Gagliardi
Drums: Austin Williams
Sound: Phillip White
Duration: 35 Minutes
A film by Ari Marcopoulos
Afro Promo #1 Kinglady (2016)
A film by nora chipaumire
Choreography: nora chipaumire
Cinematography: Benjamin Seth Wolf
Editing: Alla Kovgan
Art direction: Peter Born
Duration: 11 Minutes
Produced by Dance for Film on Location at Montclair State University (US), The Office of Arts and Cultural Programming (ACP), Executive Director: Jedediah Wheeler
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (US)
Commissioned by Montclair State University (US)
NOT waiting (2023)
A film by Thibault Charlut
Concept, choreography and co-direction: nora chipaumire
Co-production: ARTE France and LA BLOGOTHÈQUE PRODUCTIONS
Production: Julie Moens, Christophe “Chryde” Abric and Eloi Nourry
Artistic direction: Filippo Ferraresi
Duration: 8 Minutes
With nora chipaumire, Germaine Acogny, Adama Ndiaye, Ouley Ndiaye, Oulty Fall, Rokhaya Ciss, Ndoumbé Gueye and Mbappe
Inspired by Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, © Succession Picasso 2023