Into Dust, a quintet, Premiere: Dance Studio Theatre, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, December, 2004.
Music by John Hartford, Jenny Allinder, and Gillian Welch
Costumes by L. Brooke Schlecte
Names of performers: Amy Davis, Brandy Niccolai, Jeanne Mam,
Sarah Pilgrim, and Faith Venegas

Inspired by the tones and complexities of Appalachian Folk music, this dance is performed by five women and contains visual, kinetic, and aural imagery revealing a hauntingly simple view of folk life. Whether the women are dancing with physical contact or in quiet solitude, they are able to bring into the foreground a daunting intimate yet deliberately alive atmosphere.

Recover and Renew, a group piece, Premiere: Margo Jones Performance Hall, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, April 2005, ABDC Dance festival, Bryan, Texas, July 2007, Waco Cultural Arts Fest, Waco, Texas, August 2007.
Music by Philip Glass
Costumes by L. Brooke Schlecte
Name of performers: Jennifer Brast, Lauren Butschek, Sarah Pilgrim,
Kristin Ray, L. Brooke Schlecte, Andra Yount
Reconstruction: Lexie Eppley, Cali Hoffman, Hayley Hoffman, Hillary Hoffman,
Katie Lane Sarah Pilgrim, and L. Brooke Schlecte

Inspired by an investigation of open and closed movement; a group of dancers move through the space with increasing intensity as a soloist remains in stillness. This juxtaposition acknowledges the ideas of shedding the outside in order to reveal the inside.
Recover and Renew

Dangling From the Line, a solo both choreographed and performed by L. Brooke Schlecte, Premiere: Plano Courtyard Theatre, Plano, Texas, March, 2007, ABDC Dance Festival, Bryan, Texas, July 2007, Waco Cultural Arts Fest, Waco, Texas, August 2007.
Music by Be Good Tanyas
Costume by L. Brooke Schlecte

In this piece, a dancer reveals vulnerable moments when she was pushed, prodded, and silenced. The dancer expresses her being with movement that is precarious as well as impactful. Dangling From the Line

The Sweetest Thing, a quintet, Premiere: Plano Courtyard Theatre, Plano, Texas, March, 2007, ABDC Dance Festival, Bryan, Texas, July 2007.
Music by Be Good Tanyas
Costumes by L. Brooke Schlecte
Text by dancers and Meghan Cardwell-Wilson.
Name of performers: Lexie Eppley, Cali Hoffman, Hayley Hoffman,
Hillary Hoffman, Katie Lane.

This quintet reaches, catches, and holds each other as their whispers explain stories, risks, and infatuations like pages from a diary.

Inter…rupted, a quartet, Premiere: Plano Courtyard Theatre, Plano, Texas, March, 2007. Music by Four Tet. Costumes by L. Brooke Schlecte.
Text by Meghan Cardwell-Wilson
Name of performers: Lexie Eppley, Rachel Bruce Johnson, Katie Lane,
Brandy Marie Niccolai
Reconstructed for: Lexie Eppley, Hillary Hoffman, Sarah Newton, Katie Lane.

This quintet addresses events that alter perspectives of life and changes plans. The themes in this dance were inspired by surprising events that took place within the choreographer’s family circle.
Inter...rupted

She Drew a Picture of a Whale, a duet, co-choreographed and performed by Rachel Bruce Johnson and L. Brooke Schlecte, American College Dance Festival Gala at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, February, 2007,Plano Courtyard Theatre, Plano, Texas, March 2007, and Margo Jones Performance Hall, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, April, 2007, Out Of the Loop Dance Festival, Addison, March 2008.

Music by Cocorosie
Costumes by Rachel Bruce Johnson and L. Brooke Schlecte

In a split-screen layout, a duet confronts impending struggles as on performer suppresses and the other unleashes monsters of distorted body image.
She Drew a Picture of a Whale

Caution: Information Overload, a group piece, Premiere: Margo Jones Performance Hall, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, November, 2006.
Music by Caribou
Costumes by Mario Zavala
Name of performers: Jennifer Blankenship, Lauren Guyer, Nadia Losonsky,
Karla Mercado, Lacie Minyard, Leslie Perez, Sarah Pilgrim, Brianne Rice,
Rubi Trevino, Marcy Yonkey

A group of ten dancers explores stress, confusion, and anxiety that are embedded in twenty-first century America.

This Tupperware is Microwave Safe, a group piece, Premiere: Margo Jones Performance Hall, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, April, 2007, Baylor Dance Company ShowCase, Waco, Texas, April 2008.
Music by Four Tet
Costumes by L. Brooke Schlecte and performers
Name of performers: Rachel Bruce Johnson, Kali Boyd,
Meghan Cardwell-Wilson, Cali Hoffman, Hayley Hoffman, Hillary Hoffman,
Lacie Minyard, Sarah Pilgrim, Royce Russell, L. Brooke Schlecte, Nicole Touzien, Nicole Wieczorek, Marcy Jo Yonkey.
Reconstructed for: Brazie Adamez, Lexie Eppley, Cali Hoffman, Hayley Hoffman,
Hillary Hoffman, Katie Lane, Sarah Newton, L. Brooke Schlecte.

This dance plays with ideas of conformity and personal identity while illustrating themes of plastic and superficial images. The dancers’ physicality reveals the glitz, trickery, and fads of desire while trying to survive within their deceiving world. This Tupperware is Microwave Safe

Shifting Parables, a solo, Premiere: Ad Deum Dance Intensive, Houston, Texas, August 2007.

Music by Sigur Ros
Costumes by Rachel Bruce Johnson
Name of soloist: Rachel Bruce Johnson

Self, other, reality, spirituality, problem maker, problem solver. The soloist baffles her equilibrium with questions and confusions concerning these ideas. Who holds the pencil, who is writing the story, and who is it about?

Fish Out of Water. is a group piece, Premiere: Waco Cultural Arts Festival, Waco, Texas, August 2007.

Music by The Pixies

Names of performers: Brazie Adamez, Lexie Eppley, Katie Lane, Sarah Newton, L. Brooke Schlecte

A group of dancers struggle to find their own space while being distracted with the external and internal distractions and recurring impulses. As they rummage through this environment they notice themselves in the others and the ambiguity of the world around them.

Confusing the Looking Glass is a solo performed by Sarah Newton. Barefoot Brigade, Dallas Texas, April 2008, DanceMakers, Denton, Texas, April 2008.

Music by Efterklang

The dancer feels her way through a dreamlike fantasy while contemplating the physical and emotional paradigms of this world.  The juxtaposition between tiny and large moments expose both familiar and unfamiliar sensations as it relates to common emotion.