acrobatic dance troupe – STREB

Dory Dynna linked to a highlights reel. Very cool … but they seem to fall down, a lot. ☺ He’s got tickets to see them in Vancouver as part of the arts festival held in conjunction with the Winter Olympics.

Promotional video for STREB with highlights from Wild Blue Yonder, STREB VS GRAVITY, Cirque du Soleil and the David Letterman Show

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… “It’s a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight, and wild action sport,” says Elizabeth Streb, the daredevil founder of the Brooklyn-based STREB Extreme Action Company. …

Streb, an exuberant 60-year-old with spiky black hair, has won a MacArthur “genius” award for her work with the company she created in 1985. She remains fit a decade after she stopped performing her own choreography — so physically demanding, each move is calculated mathematically to avert catastrophe. …

read more: Daring dancers ready for Olympiad

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