Photography by Ari Marcopoulos

NORA CHIPAUMIRE

CHOREOGRAPHER

WHAT IS YOUR CALLING CARD?

Taking no prisoners. Physical, full-body live work—without apologies.

WHAT’S ONE BOOK, WORK OF ART, ALBUM, OR FILM THAT GOT YOU THROUGH AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE?

Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger.

NAME AN INFLUENCE OF YOURS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE.

Radio!

WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE, WHAT WERE YOU KNOWN FOR?

Being quiet.

DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN THREE WORDS.

Woman, African, artist.

“I surprise myself every day. Something new is always showing itself.”

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF IN YOUR INDUSTRY? LESS OF?

More Global South curators and presentations. Less of the way it has always been—made in the Global South, consumed in the Global North.

WHAT’S COMING UP FOR YOU IN 2024?

Building infrastructures that support thinking Black work.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SURPRISED YOURSELF IN YOUR WORK?

Every day. Something new is always showing itself.

DESCRIBE A RECENT CROSSROADS AT WHICH YOU FOUND YOURSELF.

A shift in the who and the how my team works.

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