Once called the Evel Knievel of dance, Elizabeth Streb creates choreography which she calls “POPACTION,” intertwining the disciplines of dance, athletics, boxing, rodeo, the circus, and Hollywood stunt-work. The result is a bristling, muscle-and-motion vocabulary that combines daring with strict precision in pursuit of public acts of pure movement. At the time of this presentation in 1997, Streb’s company was known as Ringside, though she subsequently established SLAM (or the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics) in Brooklyn, NY. The work seen here was described by Streb as “a solo dance performed in a box exploring the various possibilities of movement within a severely limited space.”
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