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org -orAlyssa Mayfield, Public Relations and Marketing Coordinator 413.243.9919 x132 amayfield@jacobspillow.org JACOBS PILLOW PRESENTS THE DORIS DUKE THEATRE DEBUT OF NEW YORK CITY BASED CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE BRIAN BROOKS MOVING COMPANY, JULY 10-14 July 3, 2013(Becket, MA) Jacobs Pillow presents dynamic contemporary dance ensemble Brian Brooks Moving Company July 10-14 in its Doris Duke Theatre. Led by choreographer and Artistic Director Brian Brooks, a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, the company presents a daring program featuring larger-than-life stage design, bold costuming, and full-out movement. These Pillow performances showcase multifaceted explorations of space and motion in four different works choreographed by Brooks including BIG CITY, Im Going to Explode, DESCENT, and excerpts from MOTOR. Brooks uses engaging and rigorous choreography in the ensemble work BIG CITY (2012), exploring the impacts of deconstruction and the human efforts involved in the process of rebuilding. The piece showcases Brooks affinity for architecture through a dynamic, large-scale stage installation constructed with hundreds of aluminum pipes. The audience watches as the incredible floor-toceiling set is raised, symbolizing the reconstruction that follows loss. The companys seven dancers, accompanied by an original score from composer Jonathan Pratt, test the limits of physical and emotional endurance as well as the line between balance and imbalance. Im Going to Explode (2007), a solo choreographed and performed by Brooks, juxtaposes the tension of working within confined spaces against the relief of breaking out of them. Brooks explores movement within articulated areas, such as his immediate surroundings and the relative space defined by his body. The piece demonstrates the dichotomy of Brooks movement, both fluid and rigid at the same time. The choreography intertwines an array of influences ranging from formal dance techniques and street dance to sports and physics. The entire company comes together in DESCENT (2011), a group work that aims to investigate the relationships between bodies and their tendencies for both dependency and detachment. Through Brooks visually arresting choreography (Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times), the dancers are propelled through space in a sequence of graceful falls and collisions. The piece features inventive lighting design, metallic costuming, and an electronic original score by composer Adam Crystal. Closing the program, the dancers in the duet MOTOR (2010) subtly, sublimely vary their routine, gradually injecting graceful swoops and other twists, for a complex, transcendent ode to simplicity (Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune). Aside from his Guggenheim Fellowship, Brooks boasts a series of accomplishments in 2013 including the NY City Center Fellowship and the Jerome Robbins New Essential Works Grant. Brooks has also been commissioned to create new works this year for the Juilliard School and the Vail International Dance Festival. In addition to the six performances with his company, Brian Brooks

will return to the Pillow August 14-18 to perform a duet with Wendy Whelan choreographed for Restless Creature. Company History: Since embarking on its first national tour in 2002, the Brian Brooks Moving Company has produced dance works for live performance and film that shatter conventional notions of the human capacity for strength and endurance (Susan Yung, Dance Magazine). Performing annually in its hometown of New York City and throughout the U.S., the group has been presented several times in South Korea, Montreal, and in Dusseldorf, Germany. Additionally, the company has enjoyed two consecutive seasons at the Joyce Theater (2011, 2012) and is preparing its debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of the Next Wave Festival. Festival Connections: Brian Brooks Moving Company first performed on the Pillows Inside/Out stage during the 2003 festival season. PERFORMANCE AND TICKET INFORMATION Brian Brooks Moving Company Doris Duke Theatre Wednesday, July 10 through Saturday, July 13 at 8:15pm Saturday, July 13 and Sunday, July 14 at 2:15pm Free Pre-Show Talks with Jacobs Pillow Scholar-in-Residence Maura Keefe are offered on the porch of the Doris Duke Theatre 30 minutes before every performance. A Post-Show Q&A with Brian Brooks and a Pillow Scholar will take place onstage on Thursday, July 11. Tickets $22$38. Now on sale online at jacobspillow.org, via phone at 413.243.0745, or in person at the Jacobs Pillow Box Office. Under 35 Friday Tickets are available for $19 on Friday, July 12 (ages 1835), two per person, must show I.D. when picking up tickets. Available by phone and in person only. Box Office hours: Sunday through Tuesday, 11am5pm; Wednesday through Saturday 11am 8pm. Jacobs Pillow is located at 358 George Carter Road in Becket, MA, 01223 (10 minutes east on Route 20 from Mass Pike Exit 2). The Jacobs Pillow campus and theatres are handicapped-accessible.

FREE EVENTS AT JACOBS PILLOW, JULY 10-14 Inside/Out Performance: SwingFX Henry J. Leir Stage and Marcia & Seymour Simon Performance Space Wednesday, July 10, 6:15pm Inspired by vernacular jazz and swing-era dances of the 1920s-1950s, this New York City-based dance company presents choreography that captures the excitement of improvisation in partnered dancing and solo movement. Company directors Michael Jagger and Evita Arce have assembled an eclectic cast of dancers to showcase an equally diverse array of styles. FREE Inside/Out Performance: Tina Croll + Company Henry J. Leir Stage and Marcia & Seymour Simon Performance Space Thursday, July 11 at 6:15pm Based in New York City, Tina Croll explores the intricate figures and rhythms of Balkan folk music in Balkan Dreams II. Crolls interest in complex rhythmic footwork will also be seen in Walkabout, performed to John Cages early music for prepared piano. The final piece, The Stamping Ground, is inspired by the Sanskrit saying: Sanghe Shakti Kalau Yuge (In this dark age, strength is in unity). FREE

PillowTalk: Balanchine & The Lost Muse Blakes Barn at Jacobs Pillow Friday, July 12 at 5pm Elizabeth Kendall has written a riveting new book about the little-known early chapters in choreographer George Balanchines life in Russia, and she now shares some of her revelatory discoveries. FREE Inside/Out Performance: Ramya Ramnarayan Henry J. Leir Stage and Marcia & Seymour Simon Performance Space Friday, July 12 at 6:15pm Award-winning choreographer Ramya Ramnarayan performs classical dance form Bharatanatyam, known for its powerful technique, graceful movements, and striking poses. Mime and music contribute in equal measure while the dance form utilizes a vocabulary of classical steps to create complex rhythmic patterns that tells stories with a language of gestures. FREE PillowTalk: B-Girl Looks at B-Boys Blakes Barn at Jacobs Pillow Saturday, July 13 at 4pm Sonia Destris dynamic choreography is informed by her love for hip-hop and b-boy dance styles, and in this talk she discusses her virtuosic work on view this week in the Ted Shawn Theatre. FREE Inside/Out Performance: The School at Jacobs Pillow Contemporary Program Henry J. Leir Stage and Marcia & Seymour Simon Performance Space Saturday, July 13 at 6:15pm During their first week of study in the Contemporary Program, dancers of The School at Jacobs Pillow present contemporary dance variations coached by program director Milton Myers. FREE Exhibit: Shooting Stars Blakes Barn at Jacobs Pillow Open June 19 Aug 25 Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 10pm; Tuesday and Sunday, noon to 6pm To experience dance through the eyes of other dancers is a rare treat, and this exhibit encompasses uncommon sights and vantage points, photos taken by professional dancers, that will be totally new to most viewers. New York City Ballet star Wendy Whelan reveals what goes on in the dressing rooms of New York City Ballet while Miguel Anaya shares his backstage view from last seasons production From the Horses Mouth: The Men Dancers, and much more. FREE Exhibit: Jordan Matter: Dancers Among Us Ted Shawn Theatre Lobby Open 60 minutes pre-performance By showing dancers in everyday surroundings, photographer Jordan Matter demonstrates just how extraordinary the human body can be. There's no photo manipulation here--no trampolines, no gimmicks, no tricks--which makes these images of roadside leaps and high kicks on the subway all the more remarkable. Including recognizable dance figures and relative unknowns, this collection truly communicates the excitement of having dancers among us. FREE

Exhibit: Christopher Duggan: Inside/Out Doris Duke Theatre Lobby Open 60 minutes pre-performance As the Pillow's Festival Photographer since 2006, Christopher Duggan has now documented literally thousands of indelible dance moments. Focusing specifically on Inside/Out for an exhibit last summer at Saratoga's National Museum of Dance, these images are now coming home for the first time. Duggan's superb extra-large prints show off an incomparable setting in an unforgettable way. FREE Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival Archives Blakes Barn at Jacobs Pillow Open June 19 Aug 25 Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 10pm, Tuesday and Sunday, noon to 5pm This informal library and reading room allows Pillow visitors to view videos, browse through books, access the Pillow's computer catalog, or peruse permanent collections of Pillow programs and photographs. Pillow Interactive, the popular touch-screen kiosk, provides instant access to rare film clips ranging from the present day back to the 1930s, and the Dance Heritage Coalition's new Secure Media Network features videos from other archives throughout the country. FREE ###
Jacobs Pillow, marking its 81st Festival in 2013, is a National Historic Landmark, recipient of the National Medal of Arts, and home to America's longest running international dance festival. The Festival includes more than 50 national and international dance companies and 350 free and ticketed performances, talks, tours, classes, exhibits, and events. The School at Jacobs Pillow, one of the most prestigious professional dance training centers in the U.S., encompasses the diverse disciplines of Ballet, Cultural Traditions, Contemporary, and Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance, as well as an Intern Program in various disciplines of arts administration, design, video, and production. The Pillows extensive Archives, open year-round to the public, chronicle more than 80 years of dance in photographs, programs, books, costumes, audiotapes, and video. Year-round Community Programs enrich the lives of children and adults through public classes, residencies in area schools, and more than 200 free public events. Through Jacobs Pillow Curriculum in Motion, a nationally-recognized program, artist-educators work with Berkshire County teachers and students grades K-12, transforming curricula such as biology, literature, and history into kinesthetic and creative learning experiences. Creative Development Residencies, in which dance companies are invited to live and work at the Pillow and enjoy unlimited studio time; choreography commissions; and the annual $25,000 Jacobs Pillow Dance Award all support visionary dance artists and choreographers. Virtual Pillow is aimed at expanding global audiences for dance and offers the opportunity to experience dance and Jacob's Pillow from anywhere in the world via online interactive exhibits, global video networks, and social media. As part of the Virtual Pillow initiative, Jacobs Pillow Dance Interactive is a curated online video collection of dance highlights from 1936 to today. On March 2, 2011, President Obama honored Jacobs Pillow with a National Medal of Arts, the highest arts award given by the United States Government. Jacobs Pillow is the first dance presenting organization to receive this prestigious award. For more information, visit www.jacobspillow.org.