Brian Brooks, a Guggenheim Fellow, recently completed a Mellon Foundation Creative Artist Fellowship at the University of Washington 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. His New York City-based group, the Moving Company, has been presented by venues including the American Dance Festival, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, The Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, and Lumberyard Performing Arts. Brooks collaborated with NYC Ballet Associate Artistic Director and former principal dancer Wendy Whelan from 2012 to 2019 and 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, he has created dances for schools including The Juilliard School, Princeton University, Boston Conservatory, Rutgers University, and Ballet Tech. Brooks was a founder and managing director of WAX from 1999 to 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.