about us

The Moving Company, based in New York City, creates and performs new work by founding choreographer Brian Brooks. The group has toured internationally since 2002 with presentations and residencies provided by The Joyce Theater, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, NY City Center’s Fall for Dance, The Guggenheim Museum, Lumberyard Performing Arts, the American Dance Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, and the 92nd Street Y Harkness Festival.

A Guggenheim Fellow, Brooks recently completed a Mellon Foundation Creative Artist Fellowship at University of Washington, researching the intersection of performance and augmented reality technologies, and three years as Choreographer in Residence at Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance, creating dances for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Miami City Ballet, and others. He has collaborated with NYC Ballet Associate Artistic Director and former principal Wendy Whelan since 2012 and has choreographed several off-Broadway productions with Theatre for a New Audience 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 been commissioned to create dances for Ballet Tech, The Juilliard School, Princeton University, Boston Conservatory, Rutgers University, Chicago Academy for the Arts and Harvard University. For five of his 12 years as a Teaching Artist at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education, 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 The Williamsburg Art neXus (WAX) from 1999-2004, an organization that provided services to over 750 emerging performing and visual artists through subsidized rental packages, hands-on production assistance, and performance programs encouraging creative experimentation at its flexible theater space and gallery in Brooklyn.