Elizabeth Streb Quotes

• 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.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Life, Dance, Dream

  Elizabeth Streb (2010). “Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero”, p.51, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Self, Protection, Barriers

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• It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Air, Land, Arrows

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Sports, Kids, Heart

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• Anything that’s too safe is not action.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Safe, Action

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• Skip your brain and go right to the gut.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Brain, Guts, Skip

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