In this episode of the Talking Cure: Conversations with Jedediah Wheeler, the fierce Zimbabwean choreographer and performer nora chipaumire revisits the making of her African superhero film AfroPromo #1: KINGLAND. Also disscused her experiences with race in the United States and "running into the fire" of colonial history in her first opera "The Queen vs Nehanda."

Learn More about the film Afro Promo #1: KINGLADY produced at Dance for Film on Location at Montclair State University http://danceforfilm.org/choreographers/nora/watch/

And nora chipaumire's animist technology, practice and process book:

cartography of the animist body and radical black african presences

https://www.companychipaumire.com/nhaka-bhuku-book

PODCAST: THE TALKING CURE, conversations with Jedediah Wheeler.

Produced by PEAK Performances and the Office of Arts and Cultural Programming at Montclair State University

Executive Director, Jedediah Wheeler

Producer and Editor, Natalie Marx

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Recorded remotely on June 11, via Zoom.

Photo: Ari Marcopoulos