Interview with Elizabeth Streb.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Alive & Kicking ; 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance.

Choreography and Composition.

Dance Theory.

Local Subjects:

Performance.

Choreography and Composition.

Dance Theory.

Genre:

Interview

Dance:Contemporary

Film:Interview

Physical Description:

1 online resource (56 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Charles Dennis Productions, 2009.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

This video profiles Action Architect Elizabeth Streb and her innovative investigation of movement in two parts. This program features a complete performance of their 2009 program "Catapult" which was recorded at SLAM, The Streb Action Lab in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC. Catapult featured 14 different action events including a KidAction event featuring students from the company's classes. Streb uses the action laboratory to test scientific principles on the body. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public's hearts and minds and bodies. Bonus features include a revealing interview with Elizabeth Streb and documentation of Streb working with the company. Part 1 features 5 Action events: "Wall Run Turn", Crash & Burn", "Artificial Gravity", "Polar Wander" and "Roboto". Also included in the program are selections from with an interview with Elizabeth Streb that is accessible via a scene selection menu. Topics include: her childhood in Rochester, the beginning of her interest in movement, studying dance at SUNY Brockport, her agenda after college, first experiences in New York, a theory of movement originating from laws of physics not music, first dances in 1970's, developing a vocabulary, & working with dancers, having a career as a dancer & dealing with failure, on Wall Run Turn, on the circus and using a circular stage, on action equipment and the element of danger. Part 2 features 4 Action events: "Translation", "Airlines", "Kid Action"and "Superposition" and selections from with an interview with Elizabeth Streb that is accessible via a scene selection menu. Topics include: building equipment for Artificial Gravity & other dances, finding dancers, touring shows, the SLAM lab & role of artist in society, a different art business model, Superposition, making dances = asking questions, Pop Action - the Streb technique, dancers vocally cue each other and the influence of Buckminster Fuller.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).

Performed STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (S.L.A.M.), Brooklyn

Recorded Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC 2009.

OCLC:

864632007