Press Release - Trojan Sound System to perform as part of nora chipaumire's ShebeenDUB at Dance Umbrella

[Jan McNulty]

                         

PRESS RELEASE  

Tuesday 27th September 2022

 

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• NORA CHIPAUMIRE’S WORLD PREMIERE OF SHEBEENDUB WILL FEATURE A PERFORMANCE BY TROJAN SOUND SYSTEM IN A SPECIAL CELEBRATION OF DUB MUSIC CULTURE
   
• SHEBEENDUB WILL PERFORM AT BERNIE GRANT ARTS CENTRE THURSDAY 13 AND FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER AS PART OF THE 2022 DANCE UMBRELLA FESTIVAL
   
• TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW
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Today Dance Umbrella is delighted to announce that the world premiere of multi award-winning international artist nora chipaumire’s immersive audio-visual dub culture adventure ShebeenDUB will be followed by a performance from Trojan Sound System, an institution in British Sound System culture representing the most seminal reggae and ska record label in history. ShebeenDUB will perform at Bernie Grant Arts Centre from 13 - 14 October, with all tickets offered on a pay what you can basis.

 

Marking her Dance Umbrella debut, ShebeenDUB is part dance performance, part gig, part social event. chipaumire celebrates the creative and law-defying possibilities of dub, maintaining that of the many African diasporic inventions, dub is the most provocative and questioning. chipaumire will be joined by international artists including tyroneisaacstuart, Yinka Esi Graves and Marguerite Hemmings who will each respond live to a curated setlist made up of up to five dub tracks, exploring the provocation "what is the dub body for you?"  The evening will be rounded out by a special guest set from Trojan Sound System. Reformed in 2004, London based Trojan Sound System are an institution in British sound system culture. A talented team of selectors and vocalists, they relentlessly tour the globe, representing the most seminal reggae and ska record label in history, spreading their message of love and unity through the power of ska, roots, dub, dancehall and UK bass music.

 

nora’s film #PUNK also features in this year’s online programme, giving audiences a chance to see more of this innovative artist's work on screen. Audiences can gain access to the film via Dance Umbrella’s Digital Pass availble here. 

 

ShebeenDUB features as part of Dance Umbrella, London’s annual international contemporary dance festival. Artistic Director and Chief Executive Freddie Opoku-Addaie’s first full Dance Umbrella festival will take place from 7 - 23 October across the capital and via danceumbrella.co.uk and brings together the world’s most exciting international contemporary talent to stages across London, and online for audiences worldwide. 

 

 ENDS

 

Listings information

ShebeenDUB World Premiere
nora chipaumire (Zimbabwe/USA)
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Thu 13  & Fri 14  October, 7.30pm

nora chipaumore and Freddie Opoku-Addaie in conversation 
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Tue 11 October, 5.30pm

NOTES TO EDITORS 

About Dance Umbrella

Dance Umbrella is London’s international dance festival, celebrating 21st century choreography across the capital and beyond. Its mission is to entice audiences, nurture artists, innovate practice, and stimulate interest in the power of the body in motion. Since 1978, the annual festival has brought outstanding contemporary dance to London, presenting more than 785 artists from 40 countries to over one million people. Dance Umbrella has commissioned over 85 new works and presented at 136 different venues ranging from Smithfield Market to the British Library; from canal long boats to Alexandra Palace Ice Rink; from inner city car park rooftops to outer London parks. Alongside the festival, Dance Umbrella creates year-round creative learning initiatives for all ages, develops new choreographic talent, hosts thought-provoking debates and discussions, and offers skill sharing opportunities for creative industry professionals. 

danceumbrella.co.uk 

 

nora chipaumire

nora chipaumire was born in 1965 in what was then known as Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe). She is a product of colonial education for black native Africans - known as group B schooling - and has pursued other studies at the University of Zimbabwe (law) and at Mills College in Oakland, CA (dance). chipaumire’s latest work is “NEHANDA”, a large-scale opera.

Before and up to the start of the global pandemic chipaumire has been touring "#PUNK 100% POP *NIGGA" (verbalized as “Hashtag Punk, One Hundred Percent Pop and Star NIGGA”), a three-part live performance album. Her other live works include "portrait of myself as my father" (2016), "RITE RIOT" (2012) and "Miriam" (2012). She recently released a Radio Opera (2021), has been featured in several dance films and made her directorial debut with the short film "Afro Promo #1 King Lady" (2016).

 

Her long-term research project "nhaka," a technology-based practice and process to her artistic work, instigates and investigates the nature of black bodies and the products of their imaginations. “nhaka bhuku 1” has been published in 2020 at the courtesy of Matadero Publishing House (Spain).

 

nora chipaumire is a four-time Bessie Award winner and was a proud recipient of the 2016 Trisha Mckenzie Memorial Award for her impact on the dance community in Zimbabwe. She was also nominated for a NAMA award as one of those exiled Zimbabweans making an impact on the arts at home and abroad in 2020. chipaumire is honoured to include the acknowledgements of the arts communities in awards such as the recent COVID-19 related “Dance Bubble” grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2016), a Doris Duke Artist Award (2015) and a Princeton Hodder Fellowship (2014). She is currently a Fellow at Quick Center fo

 

About Trojan Sound System

Reformed in 2004, London based Trojan Sound System are an institution in Sound System culture. A legendary team made up of selecta Daddy Ad and vocalists; Supa4 Creation, Chucky Bantan and Jah Buck.They relentlessly tour the globe, representing the most seminal Reggae and Ska record label in history. For the past decade, Trojan Sound System have spread their message of love and unity through the power of Ska, Rocksteady, Roots Reggae, Dub, Dancehall and UK Bass music, headlining club shows, captivating festival crowds and supporting legendary Jamaican acts such as; The Wailers, Luciano, Toots and the Maytals, Big Youth, Sly and Robbie and the late great, Gregory Isaacs to name but a few. Trojan Sound System are the original crew that broke Reggae music and culture back into contemporary clubs and festivals.Transcending age, race and political barriers, Trojan Sound System play music that satisfies the purest of vinyl collectors, while at the same time, introducing a new generation to the roots of Jamaican music and Bass Culture. Mixing styles and flavours from the past 40 years, the Trojan crew are legendary party starters, ignited by uplifting vocals from MC trio; Supa4 Creation, Chucky Bantan & Jah Buck. Daddy Ad hails from the Roots and Reality Sound System, which he originally founded with Earl Gateshead before refounding Trojan Sound System together with Trojan Records. He has worked with legends including; Eek-A-Mouse, Tappa Zukie, Dennis Alcapone and Horace Andy amongst many others and has always pushed for new sounds and acts to break through. Ad believes many contemporary forms of music are direct descendants of Reggae and its varied sub-genres and his mission has been to cross Reggae back into contemporary clubs and festivals. which they successfully achieved. His experience as a drummer and audiophile has led Ad in a direction to be responsible for the crew's FXs, mixing and trademark Hi-fi sound.The Sound System's vocalists have twenty years experience as members of the foundation South London sound systems; Taurus, Sir Coxsone and Saxon. They have been chosen as the absolute cream of London's Reggae entertainers. Legendary recording artists including; Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Dr Alimantado, Tippa Irie, Big Youth, Ranking Joe, Dawn Penn, Dillinger & Dennis Alcapone have all worked with the Trojan Sound team.