“By exploring the frontiers of performance space, and creating works that reflect the spirit of our technological age, Ms. Streb is carrying dance into a new dimension.” - The New York Times

Elizabeth Streb’s trademark risky choreography combines the visceral impact of extreme sports with the poetry and split-second timing of dance. Exploding with the suspense and energy of near-misses and imminent crashes, STREB Extreme Action’s daring performers explore the boundaries of force, gravity, action and reaction. Whether flying, falling, or seemingly suspended in mid-air, STREB fearlessly challenges nature, creating a new aesthetic of grace and danger. In this gripping new show, action-architect Elizabeth Streb takes her audience ringside for a match-up of human pitted against the phenomenal forces of everyday physical action. STREB materializes the unseen, ever-present, air-traffic controllers of our universe and puts those invisible action partners center stage.
This is one show you have to see to believe!

A razzle-dazzle show – The New York Times

Gasp inducing daring and beauty – Village Voice

"The dance program of the year! The daring-do of these dancers, who defy gravity with clever stage machinery, is fearless and awesome."
Francis Mason, WQXR, New York Radio

"A choreographer who requires a special taste rarely appeals to a broad public. But Elizabeth Streb's pieces do both, and this paradox is the secret to her success. One can respond viscerally to the dancers who crash against walls or to dancers curveting their bodies in space. As they fly into the air and land, inches away from one another, their split-second timing impresses with its results: rhythm, dynamics, and thrills...the presentation is brilliantly theatricalized."
Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times

Appropriate for all audiences.

Tickets for STREB vs GRAVITY are available at The Capitol Theatre box office: 509-853-ARTS or 800-325-SEAT.

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