"With their sweaty athleticism and high wire daring, STREB's
dancers may well be the Flying Wallendas of dance."
Amy Gammerman, The Wall Street Journal
"Dancers writhe from the ceiling in swivel harnesses, duck
flying metal objects and hurl themselves against solid surfaces
in a seamless, roller-coaster-paced production."
Shayne Samuels, The New York Observer
"The air is filled with the sounds of grinding crashes,
grunts and yells from the performers ad gasps from the audience...it
is all in great fun."
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
"As if the law of gravity had been repealed."
Gus Solomons, Dance Magazine
"Out of her initial experiments with challenge and risk
she developed a spectacle, a circus of sweat and a rapturous
audience that exclaims over every blow as it were a bouquet"
Marcia B. Siegal, New York Press
"Sweat. Grunting. Hurtling bodies. Death-defying leaps.
STREB dances on the edge. Split-second timing, grueling gymnastics,
flying bodies crossing paths, it all adds up to more that the
usual edge-of-your-seat performance. Pushing the boundaries
of movement based on the laws of physics, Streb and company
deliver more daring-do in one evening that most circuses do
in a world tour."
The Independent, North Carolina
"Elizabeth Streb makes dances for the space age, watching
her is like being present at the take off of a new century in
dance."
Francis Mason, WQXR, New York Radio
"STREB has not only the desire to challenge gravity but
the means it is the rare work that is actually, rather than
metaphorically, breathtaking."
N.D., Atlantic Monthly
"audience devoured this fascinating, fun, and oddly funny...choreographer
her work is unexpectedly, mysteriously accessible. It appeals
to nearly everyone exciting serene beautiful."
Kevin Nance, The Tennessean
"perhaps it's a sort of quintessential slam dancing, perhaps
its dance in evolution. Perhaps it's not even dance at all.
Whatever it is, however, it is absolutely unique and thrilling
beyond words. Crazy or not, Elizabeth Streb is a master of her
art. Whatever that art may be."
Harry Weber, Riverfront Times, St. Louis
"Throughout the evening, STREB freed the audience from
the limiting constraints of time and gravity aesthetically pleasing,
intellectually intriguing truly mystifying."
Brenda Krebs, Kansas City Star
"Let the millennium come! In STREB, the American dance
scene has finally an ethnic concert dance that portrays our
edgy, well-muscled, hyper-technical culture as a present-day
condition, not some theoretical enemy making its approachÖthe
dancer's resiliency is the final beauty."
Jean Lenihan, Seattle Times
"(The STREB) company moves with astonishing strength and
control as well as speed. The combination is amazing."
Margaret Putnam, Dallas Morning News
"Simple and spectacular supremely beautiful, mind-bending
theatrical experience, allowing you to see human movement in
a completely new and unfamiliar way."
Laura Bleiberg, The Orange County Register
"Elizabeth Streb has a problem. It's called the floor."
R.V. Scheide, Sacramento News & Review"
(STREB's work) is as devastatingly beautiful as it is violent
and athletic."
Gia Kourlas, Time Out, NY
"STREB's rough-and-tumble dances are about velocity, physical
stamina and her willingness to bow to gravity without a fight."
William Harris, The New York Times
"In her mind, Cus D'Amato lectures on fear seem to have
replaced the traditional dance canon. In her breathtaking pieces,
bodies fly up from trampolines, hurtle past each other, and
slam into walls."
Robert Lipsyte, The New York Times Sports Sunday
"It's not like choreography you have ever seen before It's
all high impact stuff -- people throwing themselves against
walls with bone-crushing abandon, hurtling down ropes and bouncing
on trampolines...
with oohs and aahs from the audience, and an effect at its best
rather like a firework display."
Clive Barnes, New York Post
"STREB has a knack for creating intricate contrapuntal
patterns in unlikely spaces. Gravity be damned."
Martin Bernheimer, Los Angeles Times
"I feel in my own body the riskiness, the transgressiveness
of her work, with people crashing to mats, hanging from bars,
clinging to surfaces. STREB's sophisticated architectural traceries,
built with millisecond timing in themes of combat with gravity
and the forcing of human skill, are potent at inducing kinesthesis
if you're not one of those wincing, you'll see in the work of
Streb and her courageous dancers a redemptive vision of human
daring and ingenuity."
Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice
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