The title’s inexact, but it’s catchier than the truth would be: Born to Strive and Leap and Scrape Up Against Flight. For some 40 years, Elizabeth Streb has pitted herself and her dancers not against ...

The New Victory Theater has revealed its 2026-27 season, which will include nine productions featuring music, acrobatics, ...

Dancers have been trying to take flight since dance was created; they spring up, they sail through the air, they dive, they vault, they flip, they swing from trapezes. But alas, dancers have never ...

BECKET — The choreographer Elizabeth Streb has long been interested in investigating how to push human bodies beyond their usually-perceived (or recommended) limits. She’s particularly entranced by ...

The last time Elizabeth Streb swooped through Tucson with her team of daredevil dancers, back in March 1997, the UApresents staff at Centennial Hall had to issue earplugs to the audience. That’s ...

STREB Extreme Action’s company name is truth in advertising: a group of seven superbly-trained athletes who propel themselves into harm’s way, repeatedly—against walls and floors, off of trampolines ...

A special edition of the STREB Extreme Action Company's 2021 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival performance, featuring a unique retrospective of Elizabeth Streb's work from the 70s and 80s alongside bonus ...

Breck Create has announced Streb Extreme Action as the 2024 Breckenridge International Festival of Arts resident artist. Choreographer, performer and instructor of contemporary dance Elizabeth Streb ...

When I first saw Elizabeth Streb’s work in the 1970s, she and her colleague Michael Schwartz were sliding down a slanted platform in the middle of Dance Theater Workshop, scrambling up it, and sliding ...

Elizabeth Streb no longer calls herself a choreographer. She prefers "action architect," and little wonder. Saturday evening at George Mason University's Center for the Arts, the scaffolding, pulleys, ...