Baker Artist Portfolios

Destiny Arlette Cooke is a graduate from Towson University, earning her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography. Exploring local and international terrain, she’s trained along the Dart Contemporary Dance Company in Berlin, Germany, has had her first dance film, “Haystack,” accepted into The Holy Art Gallery’s Virtual Exhibition in London, UK, performed as a soloist with Ballet After Dark, and has set an original piece on a Chicago-based company. She begins another season with Madeline Maxine Gorman’s GRIDLOCK Dance, has premiered her original dance film, "SHEEP" with Atlanta Georgia's Dance Canvas in the spring '24, was nominated in Cairo Egypt's Breaking Walls Film Festival the fall '24 where the film screened in Cairo, Alexandria, and El Minya, and continues to lean into upcoming opportunities as a freelance artist. She’s had the pleasure of working with a Baltimore-based production company to choreograph and feature in dance scenes for their upcoming film, “Bad Head,” offered visual and performative consultation to an MFA candidate at Monclair State University on “Red Dye 40,” an innovative thesis project exploring the captivating power of Allura 40AC, and provided movement direction to Patti Labelle’s background vocalist, Aja Marie, on a photoshoot to debut her music. Outside of performance, Destiny is passionate about the creative direction of dance photography and film, using movement as the primary visual language alongside fashion, theatre, and scenography to rework conceptual storytelling for the camera. Her practice recently expands into interdisciplinary methods, merging dance with digital platforms through promotional and standalone designs for choreography-centered works, as well as emerging 3D capture techniques that translate movement phrasing into virtual renderings. Her overall goals focus on ways to broaden exposure for movers while exploring innovative ways for dance performance to live on, and beyond, the stage.