Brian Brooks Moving Company Press Kit

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BRIAN BROOKSMOVING COMPANY


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Brian Brooks was awarded with a 2013 GuggenheimFellowship. He is a proud recipient of the NY City CenterFellowship (2012-2013) and the Joyce Theaters Artist

Residency (2013-2014).

His interest in choreography emerged at a young agewhile growing up in Hingham, MA, and was supportedwith a scholarship to train at Bostons Jeannette NeillDance Studio when he was 17. Since moving to New

York City in 1994, he has danced with numerouschoreographers, including three years with daredevilElizabeth Streb.

For three consecutive years, Brooks has beencommissioned by Damian Woetzel at the VailInternational Dance Festival to create new worksfeaturing dancers from NYC Ballet. He is currentlyengaged in a three-year tour with NY City Ballet PrincipalDancer Wendy Whelan, performing his duet as part ofher Restless Creature project. Brooks choreographeddirector Julie Taymors production of A MidsummerNights Dream (2013), which was the inauguralperformance at Theatre for a New Audiences Brooklynhome.

As a guest artist, Brooks has created new dances atschools such as The Juilliard School, The BostonConservatory, Skidmore College, Rutgers University,Princeton University, Barnard College of ColumbiaUniversity, Alfred University, the University of Maryland atCollege Park and Illinois State University. He has served

as part-time faculty at both Rutgers University andPrinceton University, and was a Teaching Artist at theLincoln Center Institute from 1999 to 2012.

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Since 2002, the Brian Brooks Moving Company has beenpresented throughout the US, South Korea and in Germany, andwas presented by BAM in their 2013 Next Wave Festival. Thecompany will be presented by The Joyce Theater in June 2015,

following a year-long Creative Artist Residency awarded by The Joyce. Other NYC presentations have included repeat engagements at Dance Theater Workshop (currently NYLiveArts), a world premiere at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, as well as presentations in the Fall forDance festival at NY City Center and performances in the Works and Process series at the Guggenheim Museum.

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The most free-spirited dancing wasin Brian Brookss Torrent, which

explores that choreographers loveaffair with lines and formation.

Members of the cast stretchedthemselves across the stage in a

long horizontal row before peelingoff like soldiers or Busby Berkeley

dancers. In the second section,they broke through the rigid

patterns with brief, explosive solos.

-Gia Kourlas,The NY Times, December 2013

Brian Brooks rightly won ovations.Mr. Brooks's number is a crescendowith feet starting still; the controlledviolence of his performance is

marvelous.

-Alastair Macaulay,The NY Times, August 2014


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Brian Brooks unleashed the tightlycontrolled chaos of his conceptualchoreographic style at Dallas CityPerformance Hall this weekend in vedistinct works that have establishedhim as the it boy of contemporary

American dance.

There was a mathematical logic to hisdesign-heavy pieces Saturday thesecond of a two-night stand presented

by TITAS his agile New York-basedtroupe, the Brian Brooks MovingCompany, feverishly executing hismaniacal minimalism.

The artistic director opened the showhimself with a 2007 solo called ImGoing to Explode, set to the LCDSoundsystem pop tune Losing MyEdge, for Brooks an ironic lamentabout no longer being cool. Dressed in asuit, he began seated in a chair facingthe wings and calmly removed hisshoes and jacket before rising to movelike an electried Gumby. Feet planted,he looked like a Stop Making Sense-eraDavid Byrne as he swung and snaked

his arms and later shimmied hisshoulders and hips while standing inone spot. Simultaneously wild anddisciplined, Explode hinted at the waythat the rest of the pieces on the bill

would create stylized elegance out ofrepetitive mechanical movement.

The most successful was this yearsDivision in which props, sound andchoreography meshed as if solving ageometry problem. Six dancers slid

woods boards along the oor and then began passing and lifting them likepartners. Scraping sounds made itseem like the path of the boards was

being amplied, and the movement ofthe panels also appeared to govern themovement of the performers as if the

boards were emitting a force eld. Theholistic effect was hypnotic.

Descent (2011) was more strippeddown and mysterious. Lit by bands ofhorizontal white light amid fog, dancersin shiny bodysuits slowly carried oneanother across the stage on their backsin the cinematic rst section. Thefuturistic feel continued in subsequentsequences built around repetitive armswings, performers leaping onto oneanother, and a gimmicky section during

whi ch two swaths of she er fabricdanced aloft like the plastic bag in

American Beauty.

Even more pared down was Motor(2010), a mesmerizing study inhopping on one leg by Brooks andMatthew Albert. The show closed withTorrent (2013), the roundest piece onthe program. Eight dancers peeled off aline to join the other end of theassembly or to solo separately from thegroup. By the end, they were whirlinglike dervishes.

Brian Brooks MovingCompany executes

feverish minimalism

Published November 23rd, 2014 by Manuel MendozaTHE DALLAS MORNING


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2014:TITAS Presents , Dallas, Texas Hamilton College , Clinton, NY UAlbany Performing Arts Center , Albany, NY Guggenheim Museum , New York, NY New York City Center Fall For Dance , New York, NY

Restless Creatures , 14 city tour

2013:BAM Next Wave Festival , New York, NYUniversity of Southern California , Las Angeles, CA

American Dance Institute , Rockville, MD Chicago Dancing Festival , Chicago, IL Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival w/ Wendy Whelan , Becket, MAJacobs Pillow Dance Festival , Full company , Becket, MA

Vail International Dance Festival , Vail, CO ODC: Walking Distance Festival , San Francisco, CA Tisch Summer Dance Festival , New York, NY Guggenheim Museum w/ Wendy Whelan , New York, NY SUNY Oswego , Oswego, NY Hillsborough Community College , Tampa, FL The Egg , Albany, NY

Alfred University , Alfred, NY Joyce Theater , New York, NY

2012: American Dance Institute , Rockville, MD ??? ,Temecula, Montreal Chicago Dancing Festival , Chicago, IL

Vail International Dance Festival , Vail, CO American Dance Festival , Durham, NC Wesleyan University , Middletown, CT Joyce Theater , New York, NY DANCEworks , Santa Barbara, CA Washington University , St. Louis, MO


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