Artists' Fellowship - 2002
Choreography
Artist Statement:
My work attempts to locate a physical domain that captures and demonstrates particular forces and qualities inherent to the nature of movement, forces that are not readily available in normal human motion. In efforts to approach the phenomenon of a real move, we construct circumstances that will permit us to marry our bodies within these events as well as invent techniques that will allow us to survive them.
More about the Artist:
In 1997 Elizabeth Streb was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' award. She is currently the 'Dean's Special Scholar' at New York University at the Draper Program working towards an M.A. in Time and Space studying Physics, Philosophy and Architecture.
Streb's choreography, (she calls it POPACTION) intertwines the disciplines of dance, athletics, extreme-sports, and Hollywood stunt work into a bristling muscle and motion vocabulary that combines daring and strict precision in the pursuit of attempting to display publicly the aggressive and deep effect of 'pure movement.'
STREB the dancers and the show have been seen on the David Letterman show, in a special on CBS Sunday Morning, on CNN's Showbiz Today, Nickelodeon, NBC's Weekend Today,on MTV, on Larry King Live debating with Dick Armey about the National Endowment for the Arts and on ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings.
Ms. Streb is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a three-year choreography fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from the Endowment, yearly, for subsequent 15 years, two New York Dance and Performance Awards ('Bessie') in 1988 and 1999 for her 'sustained investigation of movement,' a National Dance Residency Program Award sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trust, a National Dance Program award from the New England Foundation for the Arts, a 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship, four New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and a Brandeis Creative Arts Award in 1991.
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