Title: Brian Brooks Moving Company
 
Press Quotes
 


“Brooks is a Brooklyn-based minimalist with a mathematician’s exactitude and an interior decorator’s passion for color.”
Rachel Howard.com, 2004

“Brian Brooks...a poster boy for killer core strength, relishes hard physical tasks.”
Gay City News, Gus Solomons Jr., 2004

“Brooks’s extraordinary patience with dance ideas coaxes the audience into its own kind of endurance.”
Offoffoff.com, Karinne Keithly, 2004

“Brian Brooks’s charming ‘Acre,’ abstract and formalist and distinctly linear...”
The Village Voice, Elizabeth Zimmer, 2004

“Bubblicious.”
Dance Magazine, Chris Dohse, 2003

“It’s funny, it’s serious, it’s whimsical, it’s dynamic. It’s ‘Dance-o-Matic’. ”
San Antonio Express News, Joan Pikula, 2003

"Brian Brooks and his exhilarating Moving Company leave audience members breathless."
The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Rohan Preston, 2003

“Since when did minimalism come in bubblegum pink, jump high, and strut its stuff? Yet one of the giddy pleasures of watching Brian Brooks’s ‘Dance-o-Matic’ is that he concentrates on one movement module at a time, repeating it (with variations) until silliness and braininess merge.”
The Village Voice, Deborah Jowitt, 2002

“Imagine the theoretical child of Merce Cunningham and Elizabeth Streb...Imagine it young, loud, bright, and fun. This is the choreography of Brian Brooks.”
Gay City News, Brian McCormick, 2002

“Brooks simply exalts in his freedom to be fabulous.”
Dance Insider, Chris Dohse, 2002

“It’s all rigid lines, angles, and synchronicity, with a dash of humor and playful virtuosity.”
The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Graydon Royce, 2002

“Faster, Pussycat! Thrill! Thrill!”
Dance Insider, Chris Dohse, 2001

“Brooks crafted a philosophical kindergarten loaded with post-graduate questions of identity and reality.”
LGNY, Brian McCormick, 1999

“A virtual one-man band.”
The Martha’s Vineyard Times, Wendy Arnell Brophy, 1997

“...thought-provoking physical counterpoint to evocative music...”
The New York Times, Jennifer Dunning, 1996