Brian Brooks at the Department of Dance
<h3><span>Mellon Creative Artist Fellowship through University of Washington's Meany Center for the Performing Arts and </span><span>Department of Dance, and Floyd and Delores Jones Endowment brings choreographer, Brian Brooks to Department of Dance. </span></h3>
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<p><span>The <a href="https://meanycenter.org/engage/creative-fellowships-initiative">Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</a> awarded the University of Washington a three and a half year, $750,000 grant to pilot a Creative Fellowships Initiative that explores the nature of creative research at a top public research university. Now in its third year, this interdisciplinary initiative advances the field of performing arts by supporting artists in the development of new work and by integrating the performing arts disciplines into the broader curriculum. </span><span>Among these Creative Art Fellows is choreographer, Brian Brooks, who will be spending the upcoming year of creative research in conjunction with the University of Washington's Meany Center for the Performing Arts and the Department of Dance. </span></p>
<p><span> Chair of the Department of Dance, <a href="/people/jennifer-salk">Jennifer Salk</a>, has been the Floyd & Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts for the past three years. Thanks to the Jones Endowment, Brooks will also be reconstructiong his work, <em>Division,</em> on undergraduate dancers to be shown at the <a href="https://artsuw.org/event/prod_id/9634">Faculty Dance Concert in January 2019</a>.This the the first time that <em>Division </em>will be performed by dancers other than members of </span>Brooks's company. </p>