Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Streb

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American choreographer Elizabeth Streb.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Elizabeth Streb

Elizabeth Streb is an American choreographer, performer, and teacher of contemporary dance.

Skip your brain and go right to the gut.
It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.
You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly.
My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. 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.
Anything that’s too safe is not action. — © Elizabeth Streb
Anything that’s too safe is not action.
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