We recently connected with Destiny Arlette and have shared our conversation below.

Destiny , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What do you think Corporate America gets wrong in your industry?

Mistreating artists and creatives as non-essential. When you mention you’re a visual or performing artist to a corporate employee, there’s always an air of unimportance in the career you’ve chosen. It feels like an incorrect purpose. However, there’s always a respect toward the production of television and cinema, to museums and galleries, to the building of furniture, and the type of clothes you wear on your back. These final products are due to the creative idea and skillset of artists who then constructed, housed, and revolutionized their work for the public. Art is currently a risky investment due to the greater focus on profit margin. The support of jobs that produce maximum, continued labor that are likely to outweigh the outputting cost and fees with a higher income return, are pushed to the front. Not to mention, it [art] is often not understood and when preferably unliked, can be devalued. However, this doesn’t erase that artistry is still for everyone and often aids as a civic catalyst: raising discourse and illuminating solutions for the public; the working class [which includes the corporate world]. I hope this America can remember how radical and necessary the Art world and its pioneers will always be.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I professionally address myself as Destiny Arlette and at the current age of 26, behind a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography, I’ve been really finding interest in dance behind the camera. It started with having to build a gallery towards my portfolio during my senior year at Towson University. It has since evolved into my current focus and developing business as this meeting of creative direction and choreography to curate conceptual productions in [dance focused] film and photography. I strive to have dance movement as the main highlighter, in company to fashion, theatre, and scenography, to rework conceptual storytelling repurposed for the camera. I’m proud in the growing craftsmanship and exploration I’ve been discovering in this niche. As I continue to flesh it out, my ambitions follow the advancement of dance work as a selling point for products, such as in commercials and fashion shows, to be a pivot for multimedia storytelling and other artists’ crafts, and become a new, exciting, and innovative aid to current means of production. I want to bring more movement and larger scale ideas to the projects I have the honor of working on.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The ability to daydream and knowing that any idea has the opportunity to become a reality. Artistry has no bounds and doesn’t ask me to limit myself. If I think it, it can come true. I think having that creative freedom to invite curiosity and attempt those ambitions are what really pushes the passion and reward forward for me. To know that I am supported by loved ones and by a community who share a common interest and would love to be a part of the succession also make that reward worth while.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I would say to continue finding ways for performance art to be used as compass and catalyst for innovation to society. May it be used to help express the complexities of humanness, as therapy for recovering bodies, to illustrate time before us in galleries, marketing for our inventions, and excite our present moments while building community. I don’t ever want to be caught standing still.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: destinyarlette
• Facebook: Destiny Arlette
• Other: vimeo: Destiny Arlette

Image Credits

Kristian Whipple, J. Nathan, ORNGCHNL, Wavey