Choreographer

Alan Brooks

Alan Brooks studied classic and contemporary dance at the Rambert School in London. After an initial engagement at the Scottish Dance Theatre in Dundee (Scotland), he joined the ballet company of Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in 1998 as a soloist, where he danced in works by Jiří Kylián, Philip Taylor, Carolyn Carlson, Jonathan Lunn and Rui Horta, among others.

Alan Brooks had already trained to be a teacher of dance at the Scottish Dance Theatre. During this time, he managed a number of projects and created the first choreographies of his own. With »Tanz mal Drei« when he moved to the Gärtnerplatztheater, he initiated the first school dance project to be run by a state ballet company in Germany. This school programme combined dance workshops in schools with a joint visit to an evening of ballet. In addition, during this time he created children's and young people's choreographies, including works for the Munich Philharmonic (»Feuervogel« and »Romeo & Julia«), Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (»Tanz macht Schule«), the Nuremberg Chamber Music Festival (»Das Babylon Experiment«) and for the cities of Munich (»Mind the Gap«) and Kempten (»Berge bewegen«).

From 2009 to 2013, Alan Brooks led the »Schultanz in Bayern« project on behalf of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. In this project, the only one of its kind in Europe, contemporary school dance projects (predominantly in Haupt- and Realschulen [secondary schools]) were run throughout Bavaria. Alan Brooks also implemented the school dance project »Move« for the Theatre Academy Nuremberg/Erlangen in 2013.

Since 2014, he has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Augsburg and has continued the work of »Schultanz in Bayern« with the »Tanz in bayerischen Schulen« project. In addition, however, Alan Brooks also continues to appear on stage as a dancer. His most recent works include pieces by Carolyn Carlson, Catharina Sagna, Malou Airaudo, Caroline Finn, Johanna Richter and Chinatsu Kosokatani in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.