brooks & company dance's performance, followed by a question and answer session with the choreographer and dancers. Performance and Q&A last one hour. (8/30, 7:00 p.m. at Emory University's Performing Arts Studio, 1804 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA 30322)
"Though we're slightly concerned that they may have emboldened our enemies, we loved Brooks & Company Dance's ominous take on unquestioning allegiance in THE LOTTERY. Choreographer Joanna Brooks reworked a canonical Stravinsky/Nijinsky ballet, Le Sacre du Printemps, thrusting Nijinsky's angular, jolting choreography into the plot of Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery," giving new meaning to the original ballet's ritual sacrifice"
--Creative Loafing's 2006 Best of Atlanta critics' pick for "Best Ballet… and Stoning"
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brooks & company dance, founded in 2005 by Joanna Brooks, is an Atlanta-based modern dance company that creates choreographic work influenced by dance and cultural history, current political and social climates, and the pure joy of movement—often deconstructing the classical canon. In addition to the recognition in 2006 for The Lottery, the company also received Creative Loafing's 2007 Best of Atlanta readers' picks for both "Best Dance Company" and "Best Dance Performance" for Shorts II. The 2008-2009 Season will premiere Joanna Brooks' CRUX, a deconstruction of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible set to the music of Sergei Rachmaninov, at Theatrical Outfit's The Balzer Theater in October 2008.
Joanna Brooks is the Founder and Artistic Director of brooks & company dance. Her choreography credits include ballets and modern works commissioned by dance companies as well as industrials and musical theater. She has created pieces for Athens Ballet Theater, Ambiguité Contemporary Ballet, Spitzer Dance Company, and for Arts in the Park at Atlanta's Historic Oakland Cemetery. Joanna's choreography has been seen on television, at Disney's Pleasure Island and at Citi Financial's 2007 Chairman's Forum in Las Vegas. Her most recent work includes brooks & company dance's Coppelia… the real story, a modern re-take on the classic ballet and a new contemporary ballet entitled Security for Griffin Ballet Theatre, set to the music of the Beatles.
Joanna has studied with many renowned choreographers including David Dorfman, Terese Capucilli, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Doug Varone, Ann Carlson, Sean Curran, and the celebrated muse of George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell. In New York City, she apprenticed with Randy James Dance Works. Joanna holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Florida State University where she studied many contemporary techniques including Graham, Cunningham, Lewitsky, Limón and Afro-cuban.
Joanna is committed to working with young dancers and choreographers. She shares her love of dance with students at Stone Mountain Academy of Performing Arts in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Studio D in Griffin, Georgia and this past summer at the Festival Dance Camp Summer Intensive at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
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