Like many performance artists, Danielle Brazell views her work as a tool for social change and understanding across class, gender and ethnic boundaries. A founding member of the Sacred Naked Nature Girls, a feminist performance collective concerned with bridging cultural gaps, demystifying the female body and de-mythifying fetishistic depictions of it, Brazell weaves autobio-graphical narratives, installation elements, physical movement, film and audience interaction into her visceral performances. Today, she is part of the performance duo "SLANG" with Tre Temperilli and is currently the Artistic Director of Highways Performance Space. She has been recognized by Out magazine as one of the most influential gay and lesbians working in the theater in 2000, and in 2001 by The Advocate as an "innovator" in the arts. Her recent projects include "Bloom," an autobiographical work commissioned by Theatre d'Arsenic, Lausanne and La Batie Festival Geneva that uses the "killer bee" hysteria of the 1970s to explore homophobia and Brazell's own sexual coming of age during that period.

Untitled, 2003
Mixed media performance