CRANE is a collaborative, site-specific dance photography project conceived through a shared vision between Destiny Arlette Cooke and Kristian Whipple. The work draws from Whipple’s River Series and Cooke’s choreographic response to the environment, merging dance movement, fashion, and conceptual storytelling through photography.

Photography by Kristian Whipple

Pictured, Destiny Arlette Cooke

A movement study for the collaborative, site-specific dance photography project, developed between Destiny Arlette Cooke and Kristian Whipple.

Videography by Kristian Whipple

Performed by Destiny Arlette Cooke

Haystack is a duet produced by abstraction and the contemporary stylings of an anxious and overwhelmed choreographer's mind. The movers breathe through separate circumstances, their lives found gradually intertwining while unraveling themselves. The adjacent characters represent dissociation from a fixed narrative in the creative process.

Performed by Jalena Findley and Ikira Peace

Official Selection:

The Holy Art Gallery: THESIS Virtual Exhibition

A dance-centered staged performance created by GALAX Dance Movement Duo, reimagined as a storefront email template. It serves as a poster, artistic documentation of the work's tone and message, and email template to invite viewers to enter the performance rather than passively view it.

The storefront email template was developed as a prototype project for a dance film titled BALLOON ANIMALS, created for an anthology film submission. Applicants were challenged to select from a list of voicemail audios and pitch a short film concept—along with an attached budget—that centered the audio’s message. BALLOON ANIMALS was pitched as a dance film inspired by the voicemail titled “You gotta be perfect or you gotta lie,”a recording told through the crying voice of a correctional officer who was recently fired for having used drugs once years earlier. The film’s concept uses balloons as a symbol of the fragile, glossed exterior that must be maintained to appear perfect in the eyes and expectations of others, while quietly burdening the person it is attached to. The template was designed to highlight dance as a conceptual form of storytelling, the creator’s existing resources, and to clearly outline how the budget would be allocated.

This digital template, developed as a promotional poster for the dance film, SHEEP, portrays the film's true tone. The character, Devonte, is dressed in a mustard-colored beanie and fur-covered coat that blends seamlessly with the blurred outline of wool and a portrayal of sheep's appearance. The clearest image shown is of his eyes, focused ahead as if watching the viewer, with signs of sweat to allude to his "sickness" in the film: imitation. The stitched outlining of this clear image draws inspiration from the thread Devonte pulls from his mouth after desperately trying to mimic and embody the character, Alex.

This digital template, developed for the dance film, “SHEEP,” functions as promotional material and as its own visual artifact. Displaying torn-page composition, an obscured reveal of the main character, repeated typography, and an underlying message in red lettering, this design reflects the film’s tone, message, and the constant bickering between self and belonging. Its structure is claustrophobic yet clear, allowing it to stand independently as an abstract, contemporary piece. This graphic reframes choreographic elements by translating rhythm and psychological tension through layout, typography, and image.