Brigette is a transdisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, educator, and arts leader working at the intersection of contemporary movement, African diasporic traditions, immersive tech, and social justice. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Matter + Light, where she directs ECHO Immersion, a multi-sensory performance installation interrogating the "Middle Passage Data Gap" through choreography, wearable technology, and generative AI retrained to honor Black diasporic aesthetics. Her practice is anchored in her pioneering methodologies of geotemporalecholocation and ancestral algorithms, which treat the physical body as an alternative archive of cultural memory. Her creative research draws from Black feminist thought, somatic practice, and performance theory, engaging practices of wake work and Black geographies inspired by scholars and theorists like Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Brenda Dixon Gottschild.

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Dunn-Korpela’s choreography has been presented at venues including REDCAT, MOCA Geffen, the Center for New Performance, and South Coast Repertory. Her extensive 35-year performance history includes serving as Dance Captain for Disney's The Lion King First National Tour and dancing with the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble and PHILADANCO II, performing works by seminal icons such as Katherine Dunham, Eleo Pomare, Donald McKayle, and Ronald K. Brown. A 2024–2026 Dance/USA Artist Fellowship Finalist, she has presented her research on choreographic AI globally at the Beijing Dance Academy, the UCLA AI + Live Arts Summit, and the University of Malta. She holds an MFA in Choreography from CalArts, where she serves as Associate Dean and faculty at the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance, championing decolonial, anti-racist models for emerging movement artists.

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