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| Artist Roster > Dance > Brian Brooks Moving Company |
Press “Brian Brooks’ choreography is a kind of external exploration of human limits.” “Brian Brooks Moving Company’s performance of again again conjures an otherworldly place through both clever movement choices and mysterious visuals.” “If a movement is worth doing, it’s worth doing again.”
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The Brian Brooks Moving Company, based in New York City and featuring the choreography of Brian Brooks, had its first performance in 1997 when Brooks self-produced his dances at the Merce Cunningham Studio. The production featured a short film of Brooks dancing at eleven different public locations within eight hours, being stopped only once by the police at the South Street Seaport. This event caught the attention of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, who funded a second “Performance Marathon” the following year, sending Brooks and his group dancing across the Brooklyn Bridge, around Grand Central Station, and through the aisles of a deli on 7th Avenue. The company has since been presented in over 20 cities throughout the US and in Canada and Seoul, South Korea. Dance Theater Workshop has commissioned and presented two works; ACRE (2004) and again again (2006). Recent funding includes two consecutive grants for the creation of new work from the Greenwall Foundation (2005/2006) and a New York Foundation for the Arts BUILD grant (2005/2006). Major support has come in the form of creative residencies awarded by 3 Legged Race in Minneapolis (2002, 2003), the University of Maryland (2004), SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara (2004, 2005), and DTW (2006). The company has been presented by organizations including the American Dance Festival, Central Park Summerstage, Jacob’s Pillow, Symphony Space, and The Egg.
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Brooks has led Master Classes throughout the country and created new works as the invited Guest Artist at the University of Maryland, Illinois State University, SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara, and the St. Stephen’s School in Austin, TX, among others. He is currently leading a 12-week choreographic workshop for High School students at the Bayard Rustin Educational Complex, a Cultural After-School Adventures (CASA) program administered by New York City’s Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) in partnership with DTW. He has been a Teaching Artist of Dance at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education since 1999, where he has led Aesthetic Education workshops to students from Kindergarten through College, as well as professional development workshops for teachers, educators, principals, and college professors. Brooks was a Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Williamsburg Art neXus (WAX), a 3,500 square- foot arts facility in Brooklyn that housed the company’s rehearsal studio and black-box theater, from 1999-2004. He has been an invited speaker/panelist for DTW, ADF, the Joyce Theater, Joyce SoHo, the Field, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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again again (70 min. no intermission) Coming soon.
Piñata (65 minutes) In Piñata, Brian makes a departure from previous works, each grounded in one color by literally flooding the stage with the full spectrum. Piñata begins in a wash of white with layers of confetti that envelops the stage. The work slowly morphs into a kaleidoscope of color through the intricate use of lighting, costumes, and masses of tissue confetti. The stage serves as a literal canvas, capturing visible tracings of the choreography, providing an illustration of Brooks’ sense of form and balance, and his passion for color. Dance-o-matic (60 minutes) Coming soon.
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