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Brian Brooks / Moving Company

At jacobspillow.org: Aug 5

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This digital screening took place August 5-19, 2021. Scroll for bonus content!

A “master of momentum” (Chicago Tribune), Brian Brooks has choreographed for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Miami City Ballet, Wendy Whelan, and his own New York-based company. In The Moving Company’s first Pillow performance since 2013, they performed the world premiere of Flight Study and revisit Closing Distance which premiered just before the pandemic and hasn’t been performed since.

Flight Study, a new work set to a dynamic string quartet piece by GRAMMY-Award winning classical composer Bryce Dessner, was developed in multiple residencies over the past year. Closing Distance is set to a Pulitzer Prize-winning score by composer Caroline Shaw, and features the eight-voice Williamstown, MA-based ensemble Roomful of Teeth. The program was shaped, in part, by the company’s time spent at the Pillow Lab last October.

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Watch the Post-Show Talk

Dancer/choreographer Brian Brooks with choreographic advisor and rehearsal coach Risa Steinberg, in conversation with Jacob’s Pillow Scholar-in-Residence Maura Keefe.

Read the Program and PillowNotes

Performance details begin on page 20.

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  • Brian Brooks Moving Company in Motor in 2013