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'Catapult' Action Events
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 1970's, 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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material_proyectable Rebiun26041297 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun26041297 m|||||o||c|||||||| cr |n||||||||a vz |za|z| 160329s2009 xx 072 eo |o v|eng d CBUC 991010519519906709 VaAlASP eng VaAlASP rda 'Catapult' Action Events [Place of publication not identified] Charles Dennis Productions 2009 [Place of publication not identified] [Place of publication not identified] Charles Dennis Productions 1 online resource (72 minutes) 1 online resource (72 minutes) 011106 Two-dimensional Moving Image tdi rdacontent video v rdamedia computer c rdamedia other vz rdacarrier online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Alive & Kicking 97 Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016) Performed STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (S.L.A.M.), Brooklyn Recorded Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC 2009 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 1970's, 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 In English Performance Choreography and Composition Dance Theory Performance Dance:Contemporary