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 7 th Avenue.

The company has since been presented in 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 from the Greenwall Foundation and a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts' BUILD grant. 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.