REVIEWS FROM Big Range Dance Festival, Austin 2011
"...L. Brooke Schlecte premiered "Streetlights. People." in which four women seemed to draw from individual sets of gestures in rolling vignettes, gentle reactions, and complementary shapes. Overall, I found the piece smart and whole. "
Jonelle Sietz, Austin Chronicle
REVIEWS FROM Out of the Loop Festival 2008
"Waco-based Out On a Limb Dance Company seized the afternoon's one Opportunity to go avant-garde. Exactly what She Drew a Picture of a Whale was all about, is anyone's guess, but enough was going on to keep one's interest. [L. Brooke Schlecte and media projection of Rachel Bruce Johnson] seemed confined in their own universe, but one that is almost identical..."
Margaret Putnam Dallas Morning News
REVIEWS FROM Out of the Loop Festival 2009...
“Thank you for such an amazing and physical time! Brooke, you are one truly gifted choreographer. I would travel great distances to see you and the dancers. The duet with Sarah will stay with me a long time!”
Linda Caldwell, Ph.D., CMA
Associate Professor, Texas Woman’s University
“The movement was refreshingly physical and the choreography complicated yet palpable... [A Long Journey Home] is a piece that is delicately smart and generous with kinesthetic detail that begs to be seen more than once. The longer I watch this company, the more I see the performers evolve as well. It is work that breathes and allows the performers to actually BE performers - to bring to the work an individual telling of the story, not just an imitation of the choreography.”
Rachel Bruce Johnson, M.F.A
Adjunct Professor, Oral Roberts University
Artistic Director, The Bell House
