Post-Show Talk: Brian Brooks Moving Company

This Post-Show Talk is moderated by Scholar-in-Residence Maura Keefe in conversation with Brian Brooks. Recorded on July 30, 2026, following the company's performance in the Doris Duke Theatre. In their return to Jacob’s Pillow, Brian Brooks Moving Company presented the world premiere of "Elsewhere," featuring eight dancers tracked with motion capture and depth cameras, accompanied by a live Brass Quartet. The dancers’ 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 also included 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. In a new work by Brooks, principal dancers with Miami City Ballet, Macarena Giménez and Chase Swatosh, will appear as guest artists with the company, performing "Could we be Quiet?" (2026), recently commissioned in a collaborative project with New World Symphony and featuring an original score by Kevin Puts. Video by Nel Shelby Productions.