DANCE / OPERA

nora chipaumire: Nehanda

FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 – 18, 2022
7:30 PM FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Peak Performances
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey

$40 per show; $72 all three shows
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Nora chipaumire is fierce — ferocious, even — and totally unafraid (she also seems to have some affinity for the letter “f”). Oh, and don’t forget charismatic. Her dance-theater is raw, and it hits hard — while happily remaining enigmatic and suggestive rather than obvious or simplistic. This is a three-part “Judicial Opera” — a different part each day of the run — based on the adjudication of a South African native uprising against the British Imperialists during the Victorian period. (Chipaumire trained as a lawyer in Zimbabwe before she became a dancer here in the U.S., so the usual suspicions of non-lawyer artists attacking legal themes don’t apply.)

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