NHAKA: ART MAKING, THE ANIMIST BODY, AND RADICAL BACK AFRICAN PRESENCES

24.10.2023 / 19:00 – 21:00

In this opening event of nora chipaumire’s Valeska Gert Guest Professorship, the renowned dancer and choreographer critically addresses dance in the university context and explores self-examination, reflection, and transformation through physical manifesto. In the following conversation with Lucia Ruprecht, chipaumire discusses her artistic practice of Nhaka, exploring how this informs her decades of work in many university-led initiatives – often as the only person of color (or African) or artist of color.

nora chipaumire was born in 1965 in what was then known as Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe). A four-time Bessie Award winner and proud recipient of the 2016 Trisha Mckenzie Memorial Award for her impact on the dance community in Zimbabwe, chipaumire was also nominated for a NAMA award as an exiled Zimbabwean making an impact on the arts at home and abroad in 2020. chipaumire is further honored by the acknowledgements of the arts communities with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2016), a Doris Duke Artist Award (2015) and a Princeton Hodder Fellowship (2014).

The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Prof Lucia Ruprecht and close with a Q&A. 

Admission free. In English.

Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, club room

The Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship is a cooperation between the Akademie der Künste, the Freie Universität Berlin and DAAD.