Nora Chipaumire’s Miriam is a deeply personal dance-theatre performance that looks closely at the tensions women face between public expectations and private desires; between selflessness and ambition; and between the perfection and sacrifice of the feminine ideal.

Join Chipaumire along with Sheri Parks, UMD American Studies professor; Fatemeh Keshavarz, The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies; and Sarah Browning, director of DC Poets Against the War and Split This Rock.

They will discuss these and other complexities experienced by women who choose and/or are destined to lead a life of protest and resistance.

This tour of Nora Chipaumire is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The presentation of Miriam was also made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.