
Brooke LeMaster
Business owner, Director, Dance Instructor, and Team Company Director


Tracey Smith
Dance Instructor and Team Company Co-Director and Choreographer
Tracey Smith has danced all of her life. She grew up dancing at Mary Lee’s School of Dance, and she began student teaching at the age of 16. She has studied all over the United States including Chicago, New York City, Oklahoma City, Tampa, Orlando, L.A., Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, and Kansas City. She owned a successful studio for 15 years. After closing her studio, she taught at Kids Spot and Edwards Dance Center before returning back to Mary Lee’s School of Dance. Now she has been with Mary Lee’s School of Dance for 13 wonderful years. Her passion is little ones, and they absolutely adore her! She strives to give her students a strong starting base with a very positive attitude to help build their confidence and self-esteem. Tracey’s goal is that every student she teaches would love dance as much as she does!

Alex Spain
Dance Instructor and Team Company Co-Director and Choreographer
We are so excited to officially welcome Alex! She has been a huge help this year with the competition team and our biggest supporter! Alex has been involved with dance since she was 3 years old. She started dancing with Kathy Nelson’s when she was only 3 and continued until their closure in 2006. In high school, Alex returned back to studio dance at Evolve Dance Co. until her graduation in 2010. During her college years, Alex took different dance classes including tap, jazz, contemporary, modern, and musical theater at RVC, Forest Hills Dance Company, and Rockford University and even a few studios in Iowa. Alex also taught for a local studio in Davenport, IA until she returned back to her homeland in 2012. Alex’s favorite styles to teach are tap, jazz, and contemporary/lyrical. Alex would say her absolute favorite to perform is tap, which she fell in love with at a young age. Alex is the assistant coach for Boylan Dance Team. She is “so excited to be joining this awesome studio with such great families and students!”
When Alex is not dancing, she is a full time supervisor at CH&A in the intact family services program. Alex also is a licensed therapist and sees clients for counseling a few nights a week at Family Counseling Services. While working at FCS, Alex also is involved with their annual fundraiser, “Dancing with the Rockford Stars” where she has been training to be the new dance manager for the event!

Krista Anders
Front office Associate
Krista is one of our amazing front office staff. She also grew up dancing at Mary Lee’s School of Dance. Both her daughters, Kiara and Lindsey, take multiple dance classes during the week, and they both assistant teach. Krista is super friendly, organized, and always willing to help out the studio in any way she can. She is multi-talented as she is an architectural designer, substitute teacher, Mother, Girl Scout leader, and office administrator! We are grateful to have her!

Sue Nagy
Front office Associate
Bio coming soon!

Larissa DuMelle
Front office Associate
Bio Coming Soon!