7NMS | PROPHET: THE ORDER OF THE LYRYCIST
Performance | Movement & Storytelling workshops | Lec Dem
Through radical Black imagination and archival research, choreographer Marjani Forté-Saunders and composer Everett Saunders create Prophet: The Order of Lyricism, following 'Mental' (Everett Saunders) from Emcee to Lyricist on a mystic journey from the 90's into the future—a journey of mind power, bravery, and self-determination that illuminates the philosophies and practices that shaped 90's Hip Hop and influence today's lyricists.
"When Saunders speaks, it is with the inherited legacies of a collective past; he has both the commanding voice of a preacher at his pulpit and the natural, rhythmic cadence of a trained emcee."
The Brooklyn Rail
About 7NMS
7NMS is the public emergence of Choreographer MARJANI FORTÉ-SAUNDERS
and Composer EVERETT SAUNDERS’ work as a collaborative team, radically
engaging art as a medium of elevation, healing, and futurity. With 7 awardwinning
projects in 10 years, 7NMS tote a revolutionary commitment to the
Black radical imagination.
Marjani is a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship awardee, a 3x
Bessie Award-winner, and an inaugural recipient of the Jerome Hill, Dance USA
and UBW Choreographic Center Initiative Fellowships.
Everett is the thought partner behind the award-winning 7NMS production
Memoirs of a… Unicorn, and is a New Music USA Awardee twice over. His
recent work can be found on Jaamil Kosoko’s Chameleon, Mayfield Brooks’
Whale Fall, and Urban Bush Women’s Hair & Other Stories.
While incubating PROPHET through their Fall ‘20 and Winter ‘21 Satellite
Residencies, they 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.
