Zimbabwe-born dancer and choreographer Nora Chipaumire joined forces with exiled Chimurenga poet/musician Thomas Mapfumo and his band, The Blacks Unlimited to create a new multimedia performance that she explains is about “about loss, grief, displacement, trauma and a confrontation with those African brands that we have become complicit in selling, consuming and perpetuating.” lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi premiered at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 2010.
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