L. BROOKE SCHLECTE is the artistic director of Out On a Limb Dance Company. Her repertory ranges from solo to group work and has been performed in many settings in the Texas region. Schlecte holds a M.F.A. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas as well as, a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin. She studied with Yacov Sharir, Lyn Wiltshire (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre), Holly Williams (Mark Morris Dance Group), Sarah Gamblin (BeBe Miller Company), as well as professional choreographers such as Michael Foley, Vincent Mantsoe, and she performed in two of Doug Elkins’ works. Schlecte’s performances include a solo dance for camera film, we all fall down, by choreographer/director Rachel Bruce Johnson, screened at the Film Fatale Festival in Fort Worth, Texas and Screen Door in Austin, Texas. She also received the privilege to perform at the American College Dance Festival’s Gala in the spring of 2007 in her co-performance and choreographic work entitled She Drew a Picture of a Whale. She has also choreographed for the Kilgore College Rangerettes and provided a lecture demonstration/master class and performance for the Kilgore College dance department. In addition to Schlecte’s extensive choreography and performance work, she teaches dance in higher education. She is currently adjunct faculty at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, working with the dance minors and Baylor Dance Company. Mrs. Schlecte views dance as an agent to communicate, change, develop, and understand the complexities of human nature. She is most passionate about how choreography as greatly enhanced her understanding of life and how these choreographic ideas have the ability transcend from reality and percolate in the minds of those who view it.

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