ChoreoTech Lab | Program Director
July 22 – July 28
Brian Brooks (he/him), a Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography, recently completed a Mellon Foundation Creative Artist Fellowship at the University of Washington, and three years as the first-ever Choreographer in Residence at Chicago’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance, creating dances for Hubbard Street Dance, Miami City Ballet, and others. He is a 2023 Hearst Choreographer in Residence at Princeton University, while also serving on faculty. His New York City-based group, the Moving Company, has been presented by venues including Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theater, NY City Center, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, and the American Dance Festival. From 2012-2019, Brooks created multiple duet productions in which he performed alongside NYC Ballet Associate Artistic Director and former principal dancer Wendy Whelan, as well as commissioned works for dancers from NYC Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. 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, Brooks has created dances for schools including The Juilliard School, Boston Conservatory, Rutgers University, Harvard University, Ohio University, 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. To learn more about Brian Brooks, please visit https://www.bbrooks.org/.
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