Marjani Forte-Saunders

Marjani Forté-Saunders is a choreographer & performer based in NYC and also Northwest Pasadena, CA where she is Co-Director of the Alkebulan Cultural Center, and previously co-founded LOVE|Forté A COLLECTIVE with Nia Love. She is one of twenty-one Black Womyn and Gender Non-Conforming artists curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, now operating as the collective Skeleton Architecture, to receive the … read more

Marjani Forte-Saunders's Links:

marjaniforte.org

UBW Partnership Fellow | Site Visit March 20 - 22, 2018 // August 26 - September 5, 2018

Memoirs of a...Unicorn

Marjani Forté-Saunders and sound designer Everett Saunders came to MANCC for a post-production residency to revisit and restructure their 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, … read more

Forté-Saunders
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Forté-Saunders with FSU student Kentoria Earle
Forté-Saunders works on a set piece with Nadia Tykulsker
Forté-Saunders, Tykulsker and Everett Saunders
FSU Professor Doug Corbin with Saunders
Memoirs of a...Unicorn
Memoirs of a...Unicorn
Sharon Bridgforth, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Doug Corbin
Memoirs of a...Unicorn
Memoirs of a...Unicorn
Sharon Bridgforth
Memoirs of a...Unicorn

Marjani Forté-Saunders
Forté-Saunders speaks to FSU students
Forté-Saunders, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Doug Corbin and Sharon Bridgforth
Forté-Saunders and Sharon Bridgforth
Forté-Saunders at 621 Gallery
Gylbert Coker, Executive Director of the Mitchell Young Anderson Museum
Forté-Saunders and Saunders tour the Mitchell Young Anderson Museum
Larry Davis shares the history of the schoolhouse at the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in
Thomasville, GA
Forté-Saunders talks with FSU student Kentoria Earle
Artists visit Gwen Welliver and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Directing class
Forté-Saunders talks to FSU students
Forté-Saunders teaches class at FAMU