A four-year archival, research, and multi-genre storytelling project on the life journey of a Lyricist illuminates the distinctive practices, systems, philosophies, and political ideologies that have shaped Hip Hop’s Emcee/Lyricists.
Operating in CA and NY_, 7NMS_ is the public emergence of Marjani Forté-Saunders and Everett Saunders’ work as a collaborative team. With seven award-winning projects in 10 years, 7NMS tote a revolutionary commitment to the Black radical imagination. Forté-Saunders is a 2019 FCA Fellowship awardee, a 3x Bessie award winner, and an inaugural recipient of the Jerome Hill, Dance USA, and UBW Choreographic Center Fellowships. Saunders is the composer and thought partner behind the award-winning and internationally touring production, Memoirs of a.. Unicorn, and a 2x New Music USA Awardee. His recent work can be found as composer/sound designer on Jaamil Kosoko’s Chameleon, mayfield Brooks Whale Fall, and Urban Bush Women’s Hair & Other Stories (2018).
While incubating PROPHET through their fall 2020 and winter 2021 Satellite Residencies in the company’s newly erected home studios, the artists have worked in close collaboration with co-visionaries d. Sabela grimes (movement composer and sound archivist), Meena Murugesan (filmmaker & media designer), and Marc Winston (photographer), producing PROPHET’s latest filmic iteration, commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow.
August, 26, 2022
Curator: Ashley Ferro-Murray