Brian Brooks

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Brian Brooks, a Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography, recently completed a Mellon Foundation Creative Artist Fellowship at the University of Washington and three years as the inaugural Choreographer-in-Residence at Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance, creating dances for Hubbard Street Dance, Miami City Ballet, and others. His New York City-based group, the Moving Company, has been presented by venues including The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, Jacob’s Pillow, the American Dance Festival, and BAM’s Next Wave Festival. From 2012-2019, Brooks created multiple duet productions in which he performed alongside New York City Ballet Associate Artistic Director and former principal dancer Wendy Whelan. He has choreographed several Off-Broadway productions including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013), directed by Julie Taymor; and Pericles (2016), directed by Trevor Nunn. In conjunction with his extensive teaching, he has created dances for Princeton University, Rutgers University, The Juilliard School, Boston Conservatory, and Ballet Tech. For five of his 12 years as a teaching artist at the Lincoln Center Institute, he served as the elected chapter leader of the TA Union, represented by the United Federation of Teachers. He was a founder and managing director of WAX from 1999-2004, an organization that provided services to over 750 emerging performing and visual artists through subsidized rental packages and hands-on production assistance at its flexible theater space and gallery in Brooklyn.