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Brian Brooks lives and works in New York City. He started his first
dance company at age 14 in his hometown of Hingham, MA with a grant
from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. At 17, he began his formal
dance training under the direction of Jimmy Viera at the Jeannette
Neill Dance Studio in Boston, and spent two years dancing in the
companies of Diane Noya and Adrienne Hawkins. Since moving to Brooklyn
in 1994, Brooks has danced in the companies of Sean Curran, Eun-Me
Ahn, and Carolyn Dorfman, where he trained with Risa Steinberg.
Most recently, he danced for three years with Elizabeth Streb and
was a part of the original cast of the critically acclaimed works “Edge,” “Squirm,” “Up and Down,”
and “Tied.” He formed the Brian Brooks Moving Company
in 1996, and his choreography has since been presented internationally
by organizations including Jacob’s Pillow, SUMMERDANCE Santa
Barbara, The Yard, Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts,
Vanderbilt University, San Antonio’s Carver Community Cultural
Center, Montreal’s Tangente, and the Korean Center for the
Arts in Seoul, South Korea. In New York, his work has been presented
by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Symphony Space, NYU’s
Tisch School of the Arts, Dance Space Center, Central Park Summerstage,
Galapagos, DanceNow/NYC, and Dance Theater Workshop. Brooks is a
Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Williamsburg Art neXus (WAX),
an arts facility in Brooklyn that houses the company’s rehearsal
studio and black-box theater. He has been the invited Guest Artist
at the University of Maryland, College Park, Illinois State University,
and in Boston at The Jeannette Neill Dance Studio, and has been
a Teaching Artist of Dance at the Lincoln Center Institute for the
Arts in Education since 1999. |
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