[2][1] Brooks attended the University of Virginia;[3] followed by study at the performing arts conservatory Juilliard School in New York City, where he graduated with B.A and M.A.
He met his future wife Maxine Phyllis Munt at the Hanya Holm Studio, where she was teaching dancing.
[3][5] The partnership of Brooks and Munt started in the summer of 1948, they had co-directed a dance workshop at the creative arts center of Adelphi College.
[6] In 1968, Brooks and Munt opened the non-profit, theatre/dance school called the "Changing Scene" (or "Changing Scene Theatre") in Denver, Colorado,[7] after closing the Munt-Brooks Dance Studio a few years prior.
Everything was volunteer based and was devoted to presenting not just dance and theatre but new work in all media.