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Together with her highly effective performances she questions gender, race and the aftermath of colonial oppression. Nora Chipaumire has solid a creative path from Zimbabwe to New York by means of choreography and dance, choosing up a number of awards alongside the best way. As her piece “Nehanda: Manifesting Considering” involves the stage in Paris, Nora joins us within the studio to speak about Charwe Nyakasikana, who resisted British colonial rule in Rhodesia within the nineteenth century and the way this feminine revolutionary hero knowledgeable her personal work.
We additionally focus on her earlier exploration of African masculinity, and the way the private and the political spheres in Zimbabwe have turn into intertwined.