Education
Brooks attended The Juilliard School in New York with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts
Brooks attended The Juilliard School in New York with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts
Alfred Brooks Pew was the youngest of five children born to John Brooks Pew and Maysie Virginia Pew. degrees in musical composition. As a student at Juilliard he was first exposed to modern dance, and he studied dance with Hanya Holm. In 1968 Brooks and Munt opened the non-profit, theatre/dance school called The Changing Scene in Denver, Colorado, after closing the Munt-Brooks dance studio in New York a few years prior.
Everything was volunteer based and was devoted to presenting not just dance and theatre but new work in all media.
The Changing Scene was the first to have featured profanity, nudity and sexual situations on a Denver stage and in 1968 they were raided by the Denver vice squad because, Brooks said, "officers misunderstood what an offering called Organum must have been about". After Maxine Munt"s death in January 2000, The Changing Scene closed.
The Changing Scene influenced a new generation of bohemian theatre including the Changing Scene Northwest, created by a former board member after they moved to Washington.
