2015年12月13日星期日

Streb, How to Become an Extreme Action Hero

Elizabeth Streb has been testing the potential of the human body since childhood. Can she fly? Can she run up walls? Can she break through glass? How fast can she go? Combining memoir and theory, Streb conveys how she became an extreme action choreographer, developing a form of movement that’s more NASCAR than modern dance, more boxing than ballet. This book is for those who try or are willing to do just about anything to become a hero in their own way.






"...it’s incredibly well written, blazingly articulate, brimming with ideas regarding space, time, movement—as if Martha Graham and Albert Einstein had a love child and named her Streb; like Batman and Robin gave her the secret code to how to explain all that happens behind KAPOW, SPLAT, and ZOWIE."

—A. M. Homes
"Fearlessness and intelligence combined—that is what makes Elizabeth Streb's work so potent and beautiful."

—Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Elizabeth courts danger, tricks the eye, and thrills the spirit. She is a dynamic force. She's superhuman. She's Superwoman."

—Trisha Brown, choreographer and visual artist
"in this inspiring and passionate book, ultra-tenacious Elizabeth shares with the reader some of her surrealist goals: leaving a room through the walls; never landing after jumping; and moving so fast that you stand still. Wow!"

—Philippe Petit, high wire artist-in-residence, Cathedral St. John the Divine
"A daring, fiery rebel against constraints on mind and body? A brilliant prophet of a new metaphysics and physics of dance? Elizabeth is all this, and more. Against all odds, she made herself a great, original artist. Now she takes flight while staying rooted in the soil of the hard-working practioner. STREB is her irreplaceable story."

—Catharine R. Stimpson, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU


personal ideas: This is a book that I think the movement is the first and fundamental of expression of human. In the development of human civilization, human are always trying to record and express feelings and experience. 
The posture in lots of great dance performance are very artistic, it is delivering the visually beauty of rhythm. 
I think there's lots of curiosity and brave inside Streb's heart, which I really like about. She is a real action artist.

6 条评论:

  1. Streb always liked to do something new in her dance, and she thought that When you are attempting to create something new, the investigations can get stuck in the brain and often find no escape there, especially when the idea is invisible as it is while contending with extreme actions, forces, and time. She have found it to be a fruitful idea to agree to get hurt a bit or more than a bit, in the search for a real move. This “real move” is the holy grail of the act, the heart of the machine, the virus in the Petri dish. This alone tells the truth of where, when, what, and how.

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  2. I think artist should always find something new in their field, because innovate is the most important elements to improve art. However, Streb did it and she always looking for something new and created new.

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  3. streb is a creative dancer, i can feel the way he want to introduce her art style. by the dance video i can feel the passion about him. the real move he want to have.

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  4. streb is a creative dancer, i can feel the way he want to introduce her art style. by the dance video i can feel the passion about him. the real move he want to have.

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  5. For me the movements in the video is more like acrobatics, or sports, but so cool and so creativity, so attracting. Dance is everywhere.

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