Elizabeth Streb

Award-winning artistic director, Streb Extreme Dance Company

“The Limitless Imagination of the Muscles & the Bones: Action in Time & Space”

Monday, January 7, 2008 · 7:00 p.m. · Carlson Auditorium (bldg #76)

About

Dancer and choreographer for the past thirty years, MacArthur fellow Elizabeth Streb is inspired by velocity, gravity, impact and danger. She appropriately calls her Brooklyn studio “S.L.A.M.”--Streb Laboratory for Action Mechanics--where her nine dancer-athletes, “action engineers,” push through to create new images of freedom within limits. Elizabeth Streb's trademark risky choreography combines the visceral impact of extreme sports with the poetry and split-second timing of dance, opening new frontiers of daring and beauty against the powerful force of gravity.

Elizabeth Streb performing with the Streb Extreme Action Company — Elizabeth Streb performing with her Streb Extreme Action Company (S.L.A.M.).