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Marjani Fort茅-Saunders is a dancer 鈥� some days. Other days she鈥檚 a choreographer, sweeping multiple and touring the world, blessing stages with movement meant to move the needle for other artists 鈥� Black artists, like herself. Marjani is a wife to Everett Saunders: who we鈥檝e featured on Homegoings before. Everett is a sound designer, working closely with Marjani, so the two of them hit the road together with their son, because Marjani is also a mother every day.
No matter what hat Marjani is wearing 鈥� mother, wife, dancer 鈥� each practice demands so much of something we all can too often take for granted鈥� her body. Her strong, Black, award-winning body. So, what鈥檚 a dancer to do when your body betrays you?
Where is the opportunity to love ourselves? Because I wanted to dance all the time and I wanted to make a living from it. And up until this moment, when I joined Urban Bush Women, I was dying. I was not taking care of my body. I was not holding on to my food, to try to be an aesthetic. - Marjani Fort茅-Saunders
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This episode was hosted and reported by Myra Flynn and edited by Aaron Edwards, with production support from Peter Engisch, Mike Dunn and our associate producer James Stewart. Myra composed the theme music with other music "Memoirs of a Unicorn" and "Offering" by Everett Asis and Blue Dot Sessions. Kaylee Mumford is the graphic artist behind this episode鈥檚 Homegoings artist portrait.
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