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1 online resource (126 min.) |
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Alive & kicking ; program #97 |
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Dance in video |
Contents |
Interview with Elizabeth Streb -- 'Catapult' action events |
Summary |
This video profiles Action Architect Elizabeth Streb and her innovative investigation of movement in two parts. This program features a complete performance of their 2009 program "Catapult" which was recorded at SLAM, The Streb Action Lab in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC. Catapult featured 14 different action events including a KidAction event featuring students from the company's classes. Streb uses the action laboratory to test scientific principles on the body. 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. Bonus features include a revealing interview with Elizabeth Streb and documentation of Streb working with the company. Part 1 features 5 Action events: "Wall Run Turn", Crash & Burn", "Artificial Gravity", "Polar Wander" and "Roboto". Also included in the program are selections from with an interview with Elizabeth Streb that is accessible via a scene selection menu. Topics include: her childhood in Rochester, the beginning of her interest in movement, studying dance at SUNY Brockport, her agenda after college, first experiences in New York, a theory of movement originating from laws of physics not music, first dances in 1970s, developing a vocabulary, & working with dancers, having a career as a dancer & dealing with failure, on Wall Run Turn, on the circus and using a circular stage, on action equipment and the element of danger. Part 2 features 4 Action events: "Translation", "Airlines", "Kid Action"and "Superposition" and selections from with an interview with Elizabeth Streb that is accessible via a scene selection menu. Topics include: building equipment for Artificial Gravity & other dances, finding dancers, touring shows, the SLAM lab & role of artist in society, a different art business model, Superposition, making dances = asking questions, Pop Action - the Streb technique, dancers vocally cue each other and the influence of Buckminster Fuller |
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Title from resource description page (viewed Oct. 18, 2013) |
Event |
Recorded 2009, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY |
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This edition in English |
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Streb, Elizabeth -- Interviews
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SUBJECT |
Streb, Elizabeth fast |
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Choreographers -- United States -- Interviews
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Dancers -- United States -- Interviews
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Modern dance.
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Choreographers
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Dancers
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Modern dance
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United States
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Genre/Form |
interviews.
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Nonfiction films
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Filmed performances
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Interviews
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Interviews.
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Filmed performances.
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Interviews.
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Spectacles filmés.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Dennis, Charles, director, producer.
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Streb, Elizabeth, choreographer (expression), dancer, interviewee (expression)
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