“My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. 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.”

Elizabeth Streb

PERFORMANCES

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UPCOMING – Dance Parade, May 20, 2023

New York’s beloved and joyous Dance Parade returns to the streets Saturday, May 20, 2023 celebrating its 17th year with 10,000 dancers featuring over 100 unique styles of dance, live bands, and DJs. Headlining a ribbon cutting ceremony will be Grand Marshals: Ronald K. Brown, Natasha Diggs and, our own Elizabeth Streb to kick off the event at 11:45am for the ribbon cutting at 17th Street and Sixth Avenue.
STREB EXTREME ACTION will present a quick action event at the Grand Stand stage (4th Ave and 8th Street) at around 1:00pm.
DanceFest 2023, featuring FREE Kid Action classes (3:00pm and 3:30pm) and a performance by STREB’s Kid Company (around 4:30pm) will take place at Tompkins Square Park after the parade!
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STREB’s Spring Season, March 24, 2023- May 21, 2023

STREB EXTREME ACTION’s home season performances are a wild kaleidoscope of Action Heroes, Events, and Machines— a celebration of Elizabeth Streb’s life-long preoccupation with Action. Bring your friends, take the kids, and experience the fun, grit, and explosive sights and sounds of STREB. The members of Elizabeth Streb’s company, STREB EXTREME ACTION, combine virtuosity and technical skill with openhearted popular appeal. A show fit for all ages!

STREB’s 2023 Spring Home Season will be performed March 24-May 21, 2023; Fridays at 7:30 pm, Saturdays at 5 pm and Sundays at 3 pm at the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM), located at 51 N. 1st Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. General Admission Tickets are $25 & Premium Seating Tickets are $50.

Fridays @ 7:30pm, Saturdays @ 5pm, Sundays at 3pm
STREB Lab for Action Mechanics
51 North 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249

EXTREME ACTION HEROES

The members of Elizabeth Streb’s company, STREB EXTREME ACTION, combine virtuosity and technical skill with openhearted popular appeal. Founded in New York City in 1985 by choreographer Elizabeth Streb, the company has traveled, artistically as well as geographically, from the heights of the experimental dance world to the cutting-edge of popular entertainment.
“If dancers are the athletes of God, Streb’s members are the gladiators. Flipping, tumbling, leaping marvels, they perform one arduous feat after another, putting their brawny bodies through punishing routines that leave their audiences grimacing and shielding their eyes.”

Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

  • Cassandre Joseph
    Cassandre JosephCo-Artistic Director/Director of Corporate and Program Development

    Cassandre Joseph (She/Her/Hers) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her investigation in movement  began at the age of four with the sport of gymnastics. Over a span of twenty years as a competitive gymnast, she earned several state and regional titles. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in English Literature and studied journalism at Temple University’s graduate communications program. She joined STREB in 2007 as an instructor and company member. In September 2017, Cassandre Joseph was appointed Associate Artistic Director of STREB Extreme Action, and also oversees SLAM’s education program. As a performer, she has been seen ziplining across the Park Avenue Armory, scaling the walls of the Bergdorf building and dancing on the spokes of the London Eye. Cassandre has been the Creative Director of the STREB Kid Company since 2010 for which she has choreographed and self-produced three evening length works: Heroes (2015), Momentum (2016) and Navigation (2017). She is a strong believer in the transformative power of movement and is passionate about empowering young people to push boundaries and expand their notions of what is possible. When she is not seen in a rehearsal, teaching classes or creating action events at SLAM,  she can be found training her daughter Nia to be a mini-action hero.

  • Jackie Carlson
    Jackie CarlsonSenior Action Hero

    Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, Jackie Carlson (She/He/They) is a 15- year STREB ACTION HERO veteran! Jackie has studied ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, and gymnastics since the age of 6. She’s won many awards and scholarships in the dance competition world, including Miss Dance of Michigan in 2000 and “Most Outstanding Dancer ’01” with NYC Dance Alliance. She spent five consecutive summers on full scholarship at The Milwaukee Ballet School, before moving to New York City right out of high school to join Dance Theatre of Harlem, a professional ballet company founded by Arthur Mitchell. Jackie’s dream came true when her lifetime goal of becoming a stunt double and her love of dancing COLLIDED in 2008 when she joined STREB Extreme Action!

  • Tiffany Torres
    Tiffany TorresAction Hero

    Bronx native Tiffany Torres (She/Her/Hers) began her curiosity for movement at the age of 7, studying ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary, and hiphop dance styles at the Bronx Dance Theater, whilst also dabbling in other areas of movement, including boxing and weightlifting. Tiffany pursued her interest in performance as a commercial dancer and has had the opportunity to perform and appear in Lane Bryant’s This Body campaign, Ladies of Hiphop Showcase , Lip Sync Battle, season 4, and Ailey Summerstage. This year she is ready to embark on a new journey with the STREB Extreme Action company and is excited to be able to combine her passion and curiosity for movement and take it to new heights!

  • Nailah Cunningham
    Nailah CunninghamAction Hero

    Nailah Cunningham (They/Them) was raised in the weird city of Portland, Oregon. At a young age, following in their sister’s steps, they began their movement training at a nonprofit arts school, Portland Metro Arts, where they trained in ballet and modern dance. In 2017 they chose to pursue movement as a career and moved to New York to start training on scholarship at The Ailey School. In 2019 Nailah was honored to perform at Lincoln Center with the company in Alvin Ailey’s Memoria before graduating in 2020. Throughout 2021 they worked with 98 Art Collective as their featured movement artist. Nailah joined STREB in March 2022. They are very excited to push their limits and learn to fly.

  • D’Sherrick Williams
    D’Sherrick WilliamsAction Hero

    Born and raised in Marshall, Texas, D’Sherrick (Dee) Williams (He/Him/His) spent his childhood spinning in colorguard and kicking in Karate. In 2022, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Dance from Northwestern State University. D’Sherick has studied various dance forms, including Hip-Hop, Modern, Tap, Jazz, Ballet, and Partnering. D’Sherrick spent the summer of 2021 in Canada teaching dance at a camp for the arts. There, he furthered his pedagogic skills as well as his deep love for choreography and free, raw movement. D’Sherrick can be seen spending his free time skateboarding, playing one of his many instruments, or working as a fireman at his local fire station.

EXTREME ACTION HEROES (Spring 2023 Season)

  • ELISA HERNANDEZ
      ELISA HERNANDEZAction Hero

      Elisa Hernandez (she/her), born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She received her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Temple University. She has produced a music video and three dance films, and was a dancer with Cebo Carr’s house dance company GenX. She joined the STREB Extreme Action team as a project-based performer in October 2022. She is a recipient of the Disability.Dance.Artistry grant as well as the NYSCA 2023 grant for film, media and new technology.

    • ANDREA LAISURE
        ANDREA LAISUREAction Hero

        Andrea Leisure (she/her) is from Long Island, NY where she competed in gymnastics and judo before starting dance in High School. She graduated from Muhlenberg College with majors in International Studies and Spanish with a concentration in Public Health. There, she found a passion for aerial arts. Having just completed a full time circus program at Aircraft Circus Academy in London, Andrea is excited to take her love of flipping, flying, and dancing to STREB this season!!

      • SARAH PEREZ
          SARAH PEREZAction Hero

          Sarah Perez is a dance artist from France where she earned gold medals at the France National Dance competitions. With her crew, she finished 2nd in France at the international hip-hop competition, one of the most prestigious competitions in the world, qualifying her for the world championship finals in Phoenix. Sarah recently graduated from the Peridance Certificate Program and has performed in videos for monotronic, Caural, Ryan serhant, Sabrina Lonis, and for brands Sony alpha and RSVLT.

        • WILL PETTIGREW
            WILL PETTIGREWAction Hero

            Will Pettigrew (They/Them/He/Him) was raised in Maplewood and South Orange, New Jersey. They trained competitively in artistic gymnastics from an early age before finding a love for contemporary dance. In 2022, Will graduated with a BFA in dance from George Mason University, where they studied ballet, modern, and contemporary dance styles, while also honing their skills as a choreographer. Will is eager and excited to be part of STREB EXTREME ACTION!

          OPEN REHEARSALS

          See you at SLAM!

          Our Rehearsals are Free and Open to the Public

          Come in and watch the process as it unfolds, and if you have a great idea let us know.  STREB believes that the cross section of activity in our space feeds the creativity.  Please contact shannon@streb.org to make your reservation to visit our rehearsals.

          Upcoming Open Rehearsal Schedule:
          Tuesday-Friday; 5:15-8:45

          July 18 – July 21
          July 25- July 28
          August 1- August 4
          August 8- August 11
          August 15 – August 18

          TOURING PRODUCTIONS

          To Book STREB EXTREME ACTION, Contact Booking Manager Anne McDougall: anne@streb.org 

          To Book Elizabeth Streb for Speaking Engagements, Contact Company Manager Shannon Reynolds: shannon@streb.org

          TIME MACHINE

          Emerging from the pandemic with a newfound appreciation for their past, the STREB Extreme Action Company revisits their roots with a retrospective of Elizabeth Streb’s classic solos from the 70s and 80s, early equipment experimentations from the 90s, and extreme action opuses with the large scale “action machines” which the company has since become known for from the early 21st century. This historic look back not only provides a sense of grounding, and an instructional DNA for how Streb built to human flight, but it sows the company’s soil for new seeds of extreme action to germinate as they push boundaries into the future. Time Machine premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2021.

          SPECIAL EVENTS

          Bring the Extreme Action to your next event.

          For forty years, STREB has performed in theaters large and small, served as artists-in-residence at the world’s top art museums, and taken its work into the streets and sports stadiums. The company has also taken their signature extreme action to iconic locations including Grand Central Station, Coney Island’s fairground, the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Madison Square Garden, the mall outside the Smithsonian Institution and more.

          SELECTED PAST EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES

          For over forty years, STREB EXTREME ACTION has performed in theaters large and small, served as artists-in-residence at the world’s top art museums, and taken its work into the streets and sports stadiums. 

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          2021-2022 Season

          FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN 
          November 18 – December 18, 2022
          STREB @ SLAM, Brooklyn, NY

          Little Amal Walks NYC, Time to fly
          September 23, 2022
          STREB @ SLAM, Brooklyn, NY

          Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival
          Pittsburgh Dance Council Season Special, Pittsburgh, PA
          Friday,  June 3 – Sunday, June 5, 2022

          FAILING FORWARD
          May 7 – May 29, 2022
          STREB @ SLAM, Brooklyn, NY

          TIME MACHINE: From Ringside to Extreme Action
          Meany Center for the Performing Arts, Seattle, WA
          Thursday,  January 20 – Saturday, January 22, 2022

          Fall for Dance Festival
          New York City Center, New York, NY
          Wednesday, October 13, 2021 & Thursday, October 14, 2021

          Manhattan West
          One Manhattan West, New York, NY
          Friday, September 17, 2021 – Sunday, September 19, 2021

          STREB: From Ringside To Extreme Action
          Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA
          Wednesday, August 18- Sunday, August 22, 2021

          Behind-the-Scenes Multimedia Artist Talk with Anne Bogart & Elizabeth Streb
          presented online by Columbia Festival of the Arts
          Friday, June 25, 7 pm

          MASSIVE ROTATIONS & Artist Talk
          presented online by JoyceStream
          December 7, 2020 – January 3, 2021

          DANGER: Everyday Objects & Artist Talk 
          presented online December 11, 2020 – January 24, 2021

          2019-2020 Season

          Behind-the-Scenes Multimedia Artist Talk with Anne Bogart, Elizabeth Streb & Members of SITI and STREB
          presented online by Connecticut College
          Wednesday, November 18, 12 pm

          Action Heroes: Home Season @ Home
          presented online June, 26, 2020 @ 7 pm

          ACTION HEROES: SOONER, HIGHER, FASTER, HARDER
          November 16 – December 15, 2020
          STREB @ SLAM, Brooklyn, NY

          SPECIAL EVENT:
          How Impossible Works: Inside the Mind of Elizabeth Streb
          Oct 28, 2019 6:30pm
          STREB @ SLAM, Brooklyn, NY

          FALLING & LOVING
          Kasser Theater @ Montclair State University
          September 24, 2019 7:30pm
          September 25, 2019 7:30pm
          September 26, 2019 7:30pm
          September 27, 2019 7:30pm
          September 28, 2019 8:00pm
          September 29, 2019 3:00pm

          Louvre Abu Dhabi
          Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
          September 18 -20, 2019

          Parade
          Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France
          September 13 -15, 2019

          SEA II – A Live Action Show
          SLAM (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics)
          March 23 – May 12, 2019
          Saturdays @ 5pm
          Sundays @ 3pm

          2017-2018 Season

          Picasso Circus
          Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
          Saturday, October 13, 2018 @ 7:30pm & 9:00pm
          Sunday, October 14, 2018 @ 7:30pm & 9:00pm

          Tanz in August
          August 11th, 2018 @ 1pm & 4pm
          (Sony Center am Potsdamer Platz): SEA (Singular Extreme Actions)
          August 12th @ 2pm, 2018 (HAU3): STREB Kid Action Event

          Internationales Sommerfestival-Kampnagel 
          August 15th, 2018 @ 8pm
          August 16th, 17th, 18th, 2018 @ 7pm

          The Under Construction Summer Festival 2018
          at Lumberyard (Catskill, NY)
          July 6, 2018 @ 8PM
          July  7, 2018 @ 7PM
          July 8, 2018 @ 3PM

          Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts
          Kimmel Center
          Philadelphia, PA
          Tuesday, June 5 – Thursday June 7, 2018

          Arts Brookfield & Brookfield Place
          New York, NY
          Thursday, May 24, 2018 @ 12:30pm & 6:00pm
          Friday, May 25, 2018 @ 12:30pm & 6:00pm
          Saturday, May 26, 2018 @ 12:30pm

          FREE KID ACTION CLASS – Arts Brookfield & Brookfield Place
          New York, NY
          Saturday, May 26, 2018 9:00AM – 11:00AM

          SEA (Singular Extreme Actions)
          Brooklyn, NY
          March 2 – April 8, 2018

          OZ Arts
          Nashville, TN
          Saturday, January 27, 2018 @ 3:00pm & 8:00pm
          Sunday, January 28, 2018 @ 2:00pm
          Post-show Q&As on January 27

          LIED Center
          Lincoln, NE
          Thursday, January 25, 2018 @ 7:30pm

          South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center
          Miami, FL
          Saturday January 20, 2018 @ 8:00pm
          Sunday, January 21, 2018 @3:00pm

          Summer Nostos Festival at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
          Athens, Greece
          June 18 -22, 2017
          7:30PM

          The Harris Theater
          Chicago, IL
          January 13-14, 2017

          2015-2016 Season

          The Kennedy Center
          Washington, DC
          November 4-5, 2016

          SEA us Together in ACTION, SLAM
          A benefit for NYC Together and STREB
          Brooklyn, NY
          October 22, 2016 @ 7:30pm

          Fall For Dance,  New York City Center
          New York, NY
          September 26 & 27, 2016 at 8pm

          First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival
          Rochester, NY
          September 16-17, 2016

          Breckenridge International Festival of Arts
          Breckenridge, CO
          August 20-21, 2016

          SEA (Singular Extreme Actions)
          SLAM in Brooklyn, NY
          March 31- April 24, 2016

          National Geographic- Brain Games

          Miller Outdoor Theater
          Houston, TX
          October 30, 2015, 7:30pm & October 31, 2015, 7:30pm

          Peace Concert Hall
          Greenville, SC
          October 17, 2015, 8pm

          GA Institute of Technology
          Atlanta, GA
          October 8, 2015, 7:30pm & October 9, 2015, 8pm

          Fife Theatre
          Blacksburg, VA
          October 2, 2015, 7:30pm

          Just for Laughs Festival
          Montreal, Canada
          July 16 – 26 2015

          Toronto Pan American Games
          Toronto, Canada
          July 11 – 12 2015

          COLLABORATORS

          Laura Flanders (Libretto)

          Laura Flanders is the host and executive producer of The Laura Flanders Show, which airs on PBS stations nationwide. She is an Izzy-Award winning independent journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and the recipient of the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center. lauraflanders.org

          Adam H. Greene (Assistant Lighting Design)

          Recent Projects: America Amerique, Jena Co. Tour 2010. Asst. Lighting Designer: A Boy and His Soul, The Vineyard Theatre; Othello, Shakespeare on the Sound. Off-Broadway Design Credits; The Public Theater, NYC: Embedded (Written and Directed by Tim Robbins). 59E59: Cooking for Kings and Beau Brummell (Director Simon Green) Los Angeles Design Credits; The Actors’ Gang: Blood, Love, Madness (Director Brent Hinkley), Little (Director Shira Pivens), Self Defense (Director Beth Milles), Embedded, Orlando (Director Joyce Pivens). Evidence Room: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (Director Bart DeLorenzo), CRINGE (DeLorenzo), and 99¢ DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA- 2002 (Choreographer Ken Roht). The Boston Court: Pera Palas (Director Michael Michetti), Garland Award for Lighting Design. Resident Assistant: Mark Taper Forum 2003-2006. MFA – NYU, Tisch. Web: www.greenelightdesign.com

          2017-2018 Season

          Ms Harrington received the Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle and American Theatre Wing Awards for the projections in The Who’s Tommy. Other Broadway credits: Amy’s View, The Good Body, Civil War, Putting it Together. Freak, Ragtime, The Capeman, Racing Demon, Company, Having Our Say, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, The Heidi Chronicles, My One and Only, and Their Playing Our Song. Off Broadway: Les MIZrahi (Visual Director), As Thousands Cheer, Merrily We Roll Along (3 times!) Hapgood, and the ill-fated Whistle Down the Wind. Opera: Brundibar, Grapes of Wrath, Nixon in China, A View From The Bridge, The Photographer, The Magic Flute, Ghosts of Versailles, Rusalka, Orpheo ed Euridice Ballet: Anna Karenina, Othello Ballet Mecanique, Concert: Stop Making Sense, The Talking Heads, Ira Gershwin at 100,Carnegie Hall, Simon and Garfunkel Old Friends Tour, Chris Rock. Sports: Player introductions for the New York Knicks, Rangers and Liberty at Madison Square Garden. Ms Harrington is the recipient of the 1995 Obie Award for excellence in projection design and the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration. The former design director of Esquire Magazine, she produced Words on Fire for PBS and two fine daughters. She lectures widely on Projection design and is on the faculty of the Yale school of Drama.

          Andrea Lauer (Costume Design)

          Broadway: American Idiot. Off Broadway: Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage),’Or (Women’s Project), The Butcher of Baraboo (Second Stage Uptown), Elephant Dreams (Joyce), Status Entropus (NYC, Greece), Our Lady of 121st Street, and Hair (NYU).  Touring: Bring It On, the Musical National Tour, American Idiot, National Tour.   Regional:  TRU (Baystreet), Bring It On, the Musical (Alliance Theatre) American Idiot (Berkeley Rep), Selected Alley Theatre Credits (Houston, TX): The Crucible, After the Fall, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Steel Magnolias, Soccer Moms (Fleetwood Stage). She also designs for dance: The Trey McIntyre Project, STREB (Kiss the Air!, FORCES), and is a fashion stylist.   Her fashion designs have been published in Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour and her styling work has been seen in the 2010 April issue of American Vogue, and on the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. M.F.A. NYU (Baryshnikov Fellow)

          Jim Lewis (Book)

          Jim wrote and co-conceived FELA!, winner of 11 TONY nominations on Broadway, and 3 Oliviers for the National  Theatre production in London.  He personally received nominations for both “Best Musical” and “Best Book for a Musical” for these productions.   Prior to that, Jim also received a Lortell Award for “Outstanding Musical” for FELA! and an unprecedented two Drama Desk nominations in the same year for “Best Book” for both FELA! and This Beautiful City (w/ The Civilians).  FELA! recently completed a two-year worldwide tour.  Other selected works. Broadway: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (TONY, Drama Desk nominations); and Dangerous Games (both w/ Graciela Daniele). Off Broadway/Regional: Tango Apaisionado; Ionesco’s The Chairs; Ibsen’s Lady from the Sea. Opera/Dance: Paul Dresher’s The Tyrant; Ballet Hispanico’s Nightclub; Philip Glass’ Les Enfants Terribles;PastFORWARD (w/ Mikhail Baryshnikov). Dramaturg: House Arrest (Anna Deavere Smith); Drawn to Death (Art Spiegelman); Cymbeline and Waste (w/ Bartlett Sher); Lincoln Center’s WOZA AFRIKA Festival. W/ Bill T. Jones: Dream On Monkey Mountain, Chapel/Chapter, and Still/Here (20th Anniversary Season.

          Erik Pearson (Video Design)

          Erik Pearson is a director and projection designer.  He has directed in New York for Playwrights Realm, American Opera Projects, HERE, terraNOVA, Studio NYC, New York Theater Experiment, Lark and NYU/Tisch, as well as regionally for Shakespeare Theatre Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and BRAVA!  He has designed projections in New York for SOHO Playhouse, Intar, STREB and the new musical Heading East with B.D. Wong.  Regionally he has designed for El Paso Opera, The Magic, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Marin Theatre Company and Center Rep as well as Moorehouse/Spellman College, Brandeis Theater Company and The University of California at Santa Cruz where he taught theatrical projection design.  Upcoming: Directing Billy Witch, a new play by Gregg Moss, for Studio 42.  Erik holds an MFA in directing from Yale School of Drama.  www.elpearson.com

          Alex Rappoport (Cinematographer)

          Alex Rappoport is an award-winning cinematographer, editor, and independent video producer specializing in documentary filmmaking.  Since 2009 he has been the director of photography for History Channel’s Swamp People series.  From 1996 to 2001 he produced numerous segments for WNET’s City Arts and PBS’s Egg: The Arts Show.  More recently he has directed and shot several music videos, image spots for the Sundance Channel and Nick Jr., documentary shorts for Etsy.com and Gallery HD, and produced multiple interstitial programs for the Sundance Channel. In the early 1990’s, Alex shot and/or cut numerous promotional pieces for MTV, VH1, USA Network, Nickelodeon, and The Sci-Fi Channel.  As a director of photography he has numerous broadcast credits including National Geographic, The History Channel, PBS, Food Network, VOOM, and several Emmy Award-winning programs for HBO and HBO Family.

          David Van Tieghem (Original Music & Sound Design)

          Broadway: Doubt, Born Yesterday, Arcadia, Elling, The Normal Heart, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Reckless, Inherit the Wind, Frozen, After Miss Julie, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Crucible, The Good Body, Uncle Vanya. Off-Broadway: Happy Hour, The Lyons, Wit, Through a Glass Darkly, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, Farragut North, How I Learned to Drive, The Grey Zone, The House in Town, The Paris Letter, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Jack Goes Boating, Woman Before A Glass. Film/TV: Buried Prayers, Eye of God, Working Girls, Penn & Teller and The Wooster Group. Dance: Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Michael Moschen, Elisa Monte, Hilary Easton, Boston Ballet. Percussionist: Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and Steve Reich, Love of Life Orchestra. CDs: Thrown for a Loop, Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, These Things Happen. Internet: www.vantieghem.com

          Robert Wierzel (Lighting Design)

          As a lighting designer, Mr. Wierzel has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in theatre, dance, contemporary music, museums and opera on stages throughout the country and abroad. Robert has a long collaboration (26 years) with choreographer & director Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.  His other dance collaborations include works with choreographers Elizabeth Streb, Liz Gerring; Andrea Miller/Gallim Dance Company; Doug Varone; Larry Goldhuber and Heidi Latsky; Sean Curran; Molissa Fenley; Donna Uchizono; Alonzo King; Charlie Moulton; Arthur Aviles; Margo Sappington; the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Productions with the opera companies of Paris-Garnier; Tokyo; Toronto;  Bergen & Kristiansand, Norway;  Folk Opera, Sweden; Glimmerglass Festival; New York City Opera;  Seattle; Boston Lyric; Minnesota; San Francisco; Houston; Washington; Virginia; Chicago Lyric; Montreal; Vancouver; Florida Grand; Portland, among others. His theatre work has been seen on and off Broadway, including the musical Fela! (Tony Award nomination) and at the Royal National Theatre of London, UK. Robert’s extensive theatre work includes productions at most major regional theatres within the country, from New York to San Francisco.

          Brandon Wolcott (Sound Design)

          Brandon has composed music and designed sound for dance and theater at dozens of productions around NYC and the U.S. Recent/Notable productions include:   Hit the Wall at Barrow Street. Henry V at Two River (Original Music). Kiss the Air at The Park Avenue Armory. Titus Andronicus at The Public (Original Music). The Maids with Red Bull. The Tenant with the Woodshed Collective. NYC credits include: MTC, The Public, Ontological, The Joyce, LaMama, DTW, Clubbed Thumb, 59e59, PS122, 3LD, New Ohio and many more…

          Paul Piekarz (Audio Engineer)
          Robert Woodruff (Associate Director)

          Robert Woodruff has directed over 60 productions across the U.S. at theatres including Lincoln Center Theater, Public Theater and BAM. Most recently, he directed Celebration at the Hungarian State Theater in Cluj, Bergmans Autumn Sonata at Yale Rep and Madame White Snake for Opera Boston, which premiered at The Beijing Music Festival. Internationally, his work has been seen at the Habimah National Theatre in Israel, Sydney Arts Festival, Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Hong Kong Festival of the Arts, Jerusalem Festival and Spoleto Festival USA. Early work includes many premiere productions with Sam Sheppard including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. He is currently on the faculty of Yale School of Drama. United States Artists named Woodruff a 2007 USA Biller Fellow.

          SPECIAL THANKS to all the former STREB Action Heroes whose contributions and movements live on in our hearts, bodies and minds, and continue to inform our actions:

          Jason Jaworski, Alma Langley, Guadeloupe Martinez, Liam Clancy, Christine Knight, Adolpho Pati, Ned Malouf, Soldana Rivera, Mark Robison, Paula Gifford*, John Landes, Katrina Birchfield, Brain Levy, Gary Lutes, Jorge Collazo, Peter LaRose, Henry Beer, Jane Setteducatto, Nancy Alfaro, Daniel MacIntosh, Joseph Arias, Diann Sichell, Boris Willis, Michael Schwartz, Christine McQuade, Matthew Stromberg, Brandon O’Dell, Hope Clark*, Albert Elmore Jr., Christopher Batenhorst, Brian Brooks, Sheila Carreras Branson, Lisa Dalton, Eli McAfee, Nikita Maxwell, Weena Pauly, Chantel Deeble, Jonah Spear, Aaron Henderson, deeAnn Nelson, Terry Dean Bartlett*, Christine Chen, Yushemepree Spencer, Ami Ipapo, Kevin Lindsay, Sarah Donnelly, Chris Lee, Sarah Callan, John Kasten, Samantha Jakus, Justina Grayman, Leonardo Giron*, Matthew McEwan, Jamarious Stewart, Loganne Bond, Fabio Tavares*, Felix Hess, Marcus Smith, Chance Hill, Sophia Wade, Kairis Daniels, Brigitte Manga, Luciany Germán, Daniel Rysak*, Tyler DuBois, Justin Ross.

          *Indicates 10+ year tenure