Memoirs of a…Unicorn: A BLUEPRINT
Dates:
Thursday, Dec 3, 2020 at 7PM
Friday, Dec 4, 2020 at 8PM
Saturday, Dec 5, 2020 at 8PM
651 presents the world premiere of Memoirs of a…Unicorn: A BLUEPRINT (December 3-5), a film on the experimental collaging of intimate encounters and experiences in the three year journey of the dance installation Memoirs of a… Unicorn by choreographer Marjani Forté-Saunders and composer Everett Saunders.
Weaving sound and media to offer historic and personal narratives between father and daughter, the original dance piece was inspired by the artist’s father’s life in Arkansas and explores the tenets of identity, fatherhood and the natural state of ‘blackness’ as a unicorn state – the unreal state of finding one’s self. Designed by filmmaker and Unicorn‘s Bessie-Award winning designer Meena Murugesan, the film will be a multi-sensory visual experience, offering an interpretation of the internal processes and dreams at the core of this work and its team. It explores the performative-ness of creative process, the relationship of light and shadow on the screen as a metaphor for the celestial journeys of sun and moon, and the three generations of Black men who orbit Marjani’s life. The premiere event will include a discussion with artists involved in the making process sharing their personal accounts of making work in times of distress.