BLACK MARKET VALUE

BLACK MARKET VALUE

2019

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PERFORMANCES

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 2019

Redcat May 2019

CalArts April 2019

– Site Specific Installations – 

PCH Beach 2019

Women's March 2019

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CONCEPT/DIRECTION

Brigette Dunn-Korpela

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CHOREOGRAPHY

Brigette Dunn-Korpela

in collaboration with Dancers

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SET DESIGN

Brigette Dunn-Korpela

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COSTUME DESIGN

Athena Lawton

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MUSIC EDITOR

Pete Korpela

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LIGHTING DESIGN

Tony Shayne

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Josh S. Rose

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VIDEO

Giuliana Folks

Charlotte Hong

Asuka Lin

Guinness Waller

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CAST

Whitney Jackson

Kayla Johnson

Dominique McDougal

Alan Perez

Dion Pratt

Brance Wiliiam

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CALARTS PERFORMERS

Maya Allen

Alejandra Hernandez

Sydney Jacobs

Makayla Sifuentes

Black Market Value is a 20 minute movement installation/performance presentation. It investigates the identity of black and brown bodies specific to the African-diaspora as they relate to race, culture and gender. The work interrogates aspects of our historical and contemporary landscape. Black Market Value confronts and disrupts notions of the black body as object and commodity and explores the minefield of being fetishized, exoticized, and demonized - emotionally, physically and psychologically. Black Market Value returns to the intuitive realm of being both known and forgotten. Navigation, self-definition, masking and acceptance are explored. Black Market Value seeks to create a space of healing through ritual, spirit, self- acceptance and knowing.

Click to view Black Market Value for The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

It's the End of This World 

Film by Mylesha Morgan Ramey | Performance by B. Dunn Movement Company Artist Dion Pratt | Costume Design by Athena Lawton

Text by Mylesha Morgan Ramey "Soft, Water" | Music by Kamaal Williams "The Return"

Black Market Value: Pacific Coast Highway Installation 2019

Costume Design by Athena Lawton on Company Artists and Collaborators | Photography by Mylesha Morgan Ramey