Biography
Ropafadzo Chatindo is a final-year Theatre student at the University of Cape Town and an emerging theatre-maker and performer. Her work is rooted in Zimbabwean storytelling, particularly within Shona, Karanga & Mahungwe traditions, which she uses to unpack and explore the relationship between body, voice, memory, and objects in performance.
Through experimental and practice-based approaches, she investigates how objects can be activated as living elements on stage, alongside oral storytelling, music, and ritual. Her practice aims to reimagine and expand indigenous performance forms within contemporary theatre.
Synopsis
Amai Ndirikuuya Kumba (Mother im coming home) is a choreographed movement piece that draws inspiration from the Shona mourning ceremony known as Kurova Guva, a sacred “bringing home” ceremony traditionally,Held six to twelve months after the passing of a loved one, The piece centres the ceremony as a way of creating a space of healing and self-recollection by weaving fragments of memory into ritualised actions that help ease the uncertainty of grief.At its core, the piece searches and traces love as a sustaining force, one that offers solace and belonging. In the wake of loss, it creates space for the presence of a loved one who once was ,and who remains a symbol of home.
