BLACK MARKET VALUE
"The magnificently golden yellow Civil War dress has just entered and is being slowly dismantled—layers of skin peeled back and a snake-like black whip is shed. A loaded gun gone limp."
– Kestrel Leah, Author of Riting
BLACK MARKET VALUE
2019
PERFORMANCES
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 2019
Redcat May 2019
CalArts April 2019
– Site Specific Installations –
PCH Beach 2019
Women's March 2019
CONCEPT/DIRECTION
Brigette Dunn-Korpela
CHOREOGRAPHY
Brigette Dunn-Korpela
in collaboration with Dancers
SET DESIGN
Brigette Dunn-Korpela
COSTUME DESIGN
Athena Lawton
MUSIC EDITOR
Pete Korpela
LIGHTING DESIGN
Tony Shayne
PHOTOGRAPHY
Josh S. Rose
VIDEO
Giuliana Folks
Charlotte Hong
Asuka Lin
Guinness Waller
CAST
Whitney Jackson
Kayla Johnson
Dominique McDougal
Alan Perez
Dion Pratt
Brance Wiliiam
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
