Brian Brooks Moving Company

A “master of momentum” (Chicago Tribune), Brian Brooks has choreographed for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Miami City Ballet, BODYTRAFFIC, Wendy Whelan, and his own New York-based company. In their return to Jacob’s Pillow, Brian Brooks Moving Company will present a mixed program.

The world premiere of Elsewhere will feature eight dancers, all tracked with motion capture and depth cameras. Their movement produces live video and generative graphics that spill across screens, shaped and guided by custom software. The dance is a meeting place for human bodies and digital systems, generating a shifting choreography that echoes and reframes itself in real time.

The program will also include the ensemble work Closing Distance (2020), set to Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning score “Partita for Eight Voices,” an innovative a cappella composition created for the vocal group Roomful of Teeth. An interactive digital art platform that lives outside the theater will be accessible through an app to Festival audiences and remote viewers throughout the world.

Brian Brooks explores the expansion of the body through interactive technologies. His self-directed research combines dance studies with interactive digital media and computer coding, which informs new work by his New York City-based performance group, the Moving Company. He has choreographed several off-Broadway productions, and his work has been presented at The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, and across the country.

“Master of momentum”

Chicago Tribune