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suppositions that the dance world created; and integrated actions and principles of the circus, rodeo, and daredevil “stunts.” She is interested in the effects of gravity, math, and physics on her choreography. And has said, “A question like: Can you fall up? This is the bedrock of my process” and that she tries “to notice what questions have not been asked in a particular field that need to be asked and answered.” She grew up participating in extreme sports, therefore she associates a lot of her work with athletics; for example, skiing and motorcycling, and has also expressed her interest in the circus and performance artists such as
193:, and a flying machine give Streb a way to discover new ways for the body to move in space while being subjected to gravity. Moves consist of diving off 16-foot-high (4.9 m) metal scaffolding, also known as a "truss," landing level on a mat. The performers also can be found launching through the air in “Quick succession with timing so precise that they just miss occupying the same space at the same time.”
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stopped because that started to become the subject of my activity. I started to hear, Wow, you can still do that and you’re 48? It was a practical decision—three hours a day to keep in that shape?...I had been training for 30 years. It’s very boring to exercise. I stopped. I let it go, which was a good thing.” But says, “I still let extreme things happen to me.”
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where you’re 30 feet in the air and falling, then skip a spot in space, land on the ground, and walk away. So I thought the arbiters of dance training and presentation were lying at the first basic step. Dance does not address its compositional methodology. It’s not true to the form. This form is movement.”
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Streb has expressed her philosophy thus: “Go to the edge and peer over it. Be willing to get hurt, but not so hurt that you can’t come back again.” She has also said that, “Movement is causal; it’s a physical happening. You can stick a high C next to a low F-flat, whereas you couldn’t connect a move
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In her recent years, productions have become less harsh and she has begun incorporating texts, videos, and projections of slides. Within her video collaborations, she incorporates camera angles that appear to evade gravity and make the dancers bound off and crash into the edges of the monitors. They
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Streb's work is extremely demanding and necessitates endurance, dexterity, great physical strength, and the ability to be daring. Streb focused progressively more on single actions, particularly falls and collisions. By 2010 Streb stopped performing these extreme actions herself, explaining that, “I
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She has been creating works from 1975 to the present and is known for her outrageous risk taking and experimental shows she puts on. Streb includes risk into all of her choreography, giving the audience sensations of extreme feelings while watching the performers. She inquired about movement and the
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Communication between dancers includes verbal cues, and in place of music the dancers’ grunts and gasps are electronically recorded and amplified as well as the thuds of their landings and the clank and clatter of the stage equipment. With her newer choreography, Streb incorporates music as a part
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On July 15, 2012, The Mayor of London and London 2012 Festival presented
Surprises: Streb, one of several high-profile cultural events organised that summer to celebrate the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Staged by LIFT, the London International Festival Of Theatre, Surprises: Streb was an event on a
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In 2003, Streb established SLAM (Streb Lab for Action
Mechanics) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn which created a new outlet for the community where people could come and watch rehearsals and even participate in classes. She also published her documentary "Streb: Pop Action" showcasing some of the
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also are often swung from cables and are seen leaping off platforms or hurling against padded walls or mattresses. The dancers who train under
Elizabeth Streb are taught to follow movement's natural force to the edge of real danger. Collaborators on the videos include
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Surprises: Streb was commissioned by the Mayor of London and the London 2012 Festival with funding from Arts
Council England, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor.
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Streb with a team of 32 dancers (16 from her USA troupe and 16 UK dancers) performed seven "actions" throughout the day on the London cityscape, including abseiling front forward down City Hall, bungee jumping from the
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of the show being experienced by the audience. However, she has always upheld that "ovement has its own timing, unrelated to music.” Streb has always tried to reach more than just the usual audiences for dance.
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She wanted to gain a better understanding of the effects of movement on matter so she studied math, physics, and philosophy as Dean's
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Streb is known for “A preoccupation with movement and itself was symptomatic of a trend that was altering the traditional profile of modern dance.”
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rehearsals and dances she has created at SLAM and giving insight into her life and career. In 2010, Streb's book,
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