Chipo Kandaké is a dancer, filmmaker, cultural archivist, and dance ethnographer whose work explores the movement of Black culture across the diaspora.
 

Raised in New Orleans, her practice grew out of an obsession with music, dance, and the people who create it. Over the past decade, she has traveled through Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, and East Africa, immersing herself and  documenting her experiences  how Black communities preserve history through movement, music, traditions, and everyday life.

Working as both a performer and researcher, Chipo uses dance as a way to investigate migration, identity, memory, and belonging. Her work is informed by years spent being apart of social dance traditions and investigating connections between African, Indigenous, Caribbean, and African American communities throughout the Americas.
 

A graduate of Dillard University with a degree in Film, she served as editor for The Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking and curated public programming for Femme Féroce at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans.
 

She is the founder of Femme Funk, a platform dedicated to celebrating the contributions of Black women to music and culture, and Queen of the Golden Feather Hunters, continuing the Afro-Indigenous tradition of Black Masking Indians.
 

Her current work builds on years of travel, performance, and field research, exploring the histories of dance music documenting the communities that continue to shape popular culture today.