Nora

Nora reconstitutes, in the form of a ballet, the life of the dancer Nora Chipaumire, born in Zimbabwe and now settled in New York. The choreography is by Nora Chipaumire herself and the music was specially composed by one of the legendary figures of Zimbabwean music, Thomas Mapfumo. But Nora is much more than a filmed ballet, much more than a biography. It is a complete work of art filmed in southern Africa, with professional and non-professional dancers, blending into the spaces, the scenes, expressions, integrating the cinematic editing, and in which the dancer’s own struggle for emancipation runs in parallel to the struggle for Rhodesia’s independence. (Yann Lardeau)