STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero

Elizabeth Streb
Foreword by Anna Deavere Smith
Introduction by Peggy Phelan
Buy a copy at SLAM or feministpress.org

". . . 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

"Her new book explores a lifetime of thought and experience with extreme action—real moves—and the conditions that make them possible: body, space, time, motion..." (read more)
—Mary Love Hodges, The Brooklyn Rail

 

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.

BOOK EVENT CALENDAR

April 5 Reading at Barnes & Noble with Barbara Hammer
82nd St & Broadway NYC 7pm

April 16 Post SLAM Show BOOK RELEASE PARTY

April 20 Reading at KGB
85 East 4th St. NYC 7pm