MANCC Welcomes Visiting Artist Marjani Forté-Saunders
Time
august 26, 2018 12:00am - september 5, 2018 11:59pm
Location
Montgomery Hall (MON)
Event Details
The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) is pleased to host choreographer, Marjani Forté-Saunders, for a post-premiere residency to revisit and restructure her work Memoirs of a…Unicorn. Inspired by her father, a sci-fi
Event Details
The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) is pleased to host choreographer, Marjani Forté-Saunders, for a post-premiere residency to revisit and restructure her work Memoirs of a…Unicorn. Inspired by her father, a sci-fi enthusiast, and the simultaneous events of becoming pregnant with her son and the murder of Eric Garner, Forté-Saunders poses a set of questions about the impact of historic inequities on families, children, and our collective futures.
Forté-Saunders writes “there are so many stories left behind in the arduous journeys of migration, immigration, and surviving legitimized, systemic violence and oppression … if we knew the stories of our forebears how might we ‘fly’ differently?” Memoirs of a…Unicorn will weave historic and personal narratives into an embodied tale of fragmented histories, abiding love, and metaphysical warriorship.
RSVP is required to attend. Please email info@mancc.org to reserve a seat.
See more on Marjani Forté-Saunders:
Forté-Saunders’ own words on Memoirs… on the Urban Bush Women Choreographic Fellows website
Video preview of Memoirs of a…Unicorn in advance of its premiere at New York Live Arts in 2017