The "Fly" woman

Elizabeth Streb's extreme moves

Who says we should only dance on our feet and not on our shoulders, hands or backs? Why dance on the ground but not in the sky? Take a look as self-described ‘action inventor’ Elizabeth Streb dreams up new ways to set the human body in motion.

http://poptech.org/popcasts/elizabeth_strebs_extreme_moves

http://www.borntoflymovie.com/the-film/

Throughout my career, my goal has always been to create a motion lexicon that all humans recognize. I call it POP ACTION and it exists now, not only on stage as a fusion of dance, sports, gymnastics, and the American circus – but also in a place, SLAM, where an exchange of human acts takes place everyday enriching my vocabulary and hopefully expanding the lives of my company’s co-conspirators, the audience.    My aim is to create work that speaks of and to intrinsic human potential. Let’s reinvent the radical art of culture, let’s imagine art entwined with the culture of the street, the surprising quotidian event; art that is as accidental an occurrence in people’s everyday urban lives as the parks, the sidewalks, the trees and the corner deli. Each and every time I work at SLAM, I ask, “how can movement elicit sorrow, fright, humor, excitement and the desire to live a better life – all at once.” I want my work to make all of us want to do more, go further. I believe that action – on the stage and in the street – is the most powerful force on earth. I believe it can cure sad hearts and sated minds, and I am trying to prove this point.

-Elizabeth Streb

personal ideas: I really like this article because it is a dreamful action which I think is very interesting.
From the videos I see dancing in a different perspective. Dance is using legs foot arms and emotion. The natural body could do so many things that is just very amazing. I also like the new element of "fly" added into the life. The movement show the dancer's sense of life, and it is related with the earth and spirit. It also shown a relationships between dream and power.