DANCE / OPERA

nora chipaumirie: Nehanda

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2023
5:00 PM

Summer for the City
Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$5-$55
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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, six-hour “Juridicial Opera” 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.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mouthwatering Indian kebabs at Kebab au Sharab.