Charlene Kaye // "Cheshire Kitten"
A few months back we had the pleasure of opening up our Brooklyn soundstage to NYC based songwriter, Charlene Kaye to shoot a music video for her future-funk track, "Cheshire Kitten". The song is exploring the many sides that we has individuals take on and the roles that we play under different circumstances and experience. "We’re multi-faceted creatures, and one can be many contradictory things at the same time. Lyrically, that opened up a lot of questions and ideas about what it means to be a woman, and how we can be breadwinners and we can be sexual; we can be aggressive, delicate, soft. And it doesn’t just apply to women. I think that men should and can embrace all of those contradictory impulses within them, too."
Charlene worked with friend/choreographer Jadee Nikita with an old vogue style dance that was made popular in the Harlem ballroom scene back in the 1960's. Throughout the shoot she is wearing a handmade suit made of iridescent cellophane which, much like the theme of the song, is constantly changing based on the movement within each environment along with the way the lights hit. Overall, the set design was pretty bare bones, using Leko spotlights at ground level along with some beautiful colors across our cyclorama for Charlene to dance across. The steadycam operator followed her every move adding a fluid energy to an already exciting performance. To learn a bit more about Charlene Kaye and her process, check out this awesome interview with Hollywood Life here.
