Baker Artist Portfolios

Destiny Arlette Cooke is a movement artist and interdisciplinary creator whose work spans dance, film, and visual storytelling. Her practice centers movement as a primary visual language, engaging fashion, theatre, and scenography to rework conceptual narratives for the camera and beyond the stage. She's known to do her own stunts, conceptualizing her own ideas and working closely with creative collaborators, shaping every layer of her projects—from movement development to makeup design, costume choices, and location. Through choreography, performance, and digital experimentation, Destiny explores ways to broaden exposure for movers while investigating how dance performance can exist across physical and virtual platforms. A graduate of Towson University with a B.F.A in Dance Performance and Choreography, Destiny’s work spans local and international terrain. She has trained with Dart Contemporary Dance Company in Berlin, Germany; performed as a soloist with Ballet After Dark; and set original choreography on a Chicago-based company. Her dance films "Haystack" and "SHEEP" have screened internationally, with "Haystack" featured in The Holy Art Gallery’s Virtual Exhibition (London, UK) and "SHEEP" premiering with Dance Canvas (Atlanta, GA) before later being nominated and screened in Cairo, Alexandria, and El Minya as part of Egypt’s Breaking Walls Film Festival. Destiny is currently entering another season as a performing artist with Madeline Maxine Roman’s GRIDLOCK Dance while continuing to expand her work as a freelance artist. In addition to performance and choreography, Destiny’s collaborative work includes choreographing and featuring in dance scenes for the upcoming film "BAD HEAD" with a Baltimore-based production company. She has offered visual and performative consultation to an M.F.A. candidate at Montclair State University on "Red Dye 40," an interdisciplinary thesis project examining the captivating power of Allura Red 40 AC. Destiny has also provided movement direction to Patti LaBelle’s background vocalist, Aja Marie, during a photoshoot marking the debut of her music. Her practice continues to expand into interdisciplinary and digital methods, including promotional and standalone designs for choreography centered works and emerging 3D capture techniques that translate movement phrasing into virtual renderings.