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California Institute of the Arts

Brigette Dunn-Korpela

Pronouns: The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance

Faculty

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Email address: bdunnkorpela@calarts.edu
Phone number: (661) 554-2648 x6228
Office address:
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
Degrees:
  • MFA
    California Institute of the Arts

Brigette Dunn-Korpela is a choreographer, performer, and educator who explores cultural and personal narratives through dance, using her body as a vessel for creative-kinetic expression and healing. As the Artistic Director of B. Dunn Movement, she leads a transdisciplinary performance company dedicated to healing and transformation within the African-Diaspora and BIPOC communities. Her notable works include “Echo Immersion,” a fusion of movement and technology exploring Afrofuturism and collaborative world-building, and “Black Market Value,” which uses the body as a mapping site of visual and embodied history to interrogate images and residue of settler colonialism, race, and identity. Brigette’s work has appeared at venues such as Geffen @ MOCA, L.A. Dance Festival, REDCAT, Mobius, and the Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge.

She has performed with the first U.S. tour of The Lion King and the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, working with renowned choreographers like Ronald K. Brown, Donald McKayle, Kevin Wynn, Kevin “Iega” Jeff, Kozuki Hirabayashi, Pascal Rioult, Nathan Trice, Rosangela Silvestre, Eleo Pomare, Garth Fagan, and Katherine Dunham. Her artistic vision invites audiences to engage with the complexities of identity, history, and social change through the transformative power of movement and expression.

Brigette’s choreography includes Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf” at KCREP Theater with director Khanisha Foster, and South Coast Repertory’s recent production of “Alice’s Wonderland,” directed by Rob Salas. She has also served as Dance Captain and Dancer for the Tony Award-winning The Lion King’s first U.S. National Tour, performed in the Dance Women Living Legends Tour at the Kennedy Center, Aaron Davis Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NJPAC, Recently, she was the Rehearsal Director for Rosanna Gamson’s “World Wide Sugar Houses.”

Brigette holds an MFA from CalArts and serves as the Associate Dean for the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts.