Advance Program Notes STREB FORCES Friday, October 2, 2015, 7:30 PM

These Advance Program Notes are provided online for our patrons who like to read about performances ahead of time. Printed programs will be provided to patrons at the performances. Programs are subject to change. STREB FORCES

ACTION ARCHITECT AND CHOREOGRAPHER Elizabeth Streb ACTION COLLABORATORS Robert Woodruff, associate director Jim Lewis, book Laura Flanders, Larry Walters story David Van Tieghem, original music and sound design Brandon Wolcott, co-sound design and additional music Andrea Lauer, costume design Robert Wierzel, lighting design Adam Greene, assistant lighting design Wendall K. Harrington and Erik Pearson, projection design

Alex Rappaport, cinematographer Sveva Costa Sanseverino, cinematographer Elizabeth Streb, Noe & Ivan España, Shock Studios, and Hudson Scenic, set design

THE COMPANY ACTION ENGINEERS Fabio Tavares da Silva, associate artistic director Jackie Carlson, Leonardo Giron Torres, Justina Zaire Baptiste, DJ and MC Grayman, Felix Hess, Samantha Jakus, Cassandre Joseph, Daniel Rysak, and Jamarious Stewart

ACTION EVENTS

SHAKE FLY HIT ESCAPE CRASH Intermission WRITHE SLICE BOUND FALL TUMULT ROTATE ROCKET

Program subject to change.

Music from FORCES by David Van Tieghem is available on iTunes. Biographies ELIZABETH STREB, action architect and choreographer Elizabeth Streb was born in 1950 and has been testing the potential of the human body ever since. She founded the STREB EXTREME ACTION COMPANY in 1985 and is a recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Genius Award (1997). Streb is a member of the board of the Jerome Foundation and is also a member of the Atlantic Center for the Arts National Council. She holds a master of arts in humanities and social thought from New York University, a bachelor of science in modern dance from SUNY Brockport, and two honorary doctorates (SUNY Brockport and Rhode Island College). She is the recipient of numerous other awards and fellowships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987; a Brandeis Creative Arts Award in 1991; two New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessie Awards) in 1988 and 1999 for her “sustained investigation of movement;” a Doris Duke Artist Award in 2013; and over 30 years of on-going support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Once called the Evel Knievel of dance, Elizabeth Streb’s choreography, which she calls “POPACTION,” intertwines the disciplines of dance, athletics, boxing, rodeo, the circus, and Hollywood stunt-work. The result is a bristling, muscle-and-motion vocabulary that combines daring with strict precision in pursuit of public acts of “pure movement.” Streb has received major commissions from the Whitney Museum of Art, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, the Park Avenue Armory, and London 2012, the Cultural Olympiad of the Summer Games.

Streb has been a featured speaker presenting her keynote lectures at such places as TEDxMet, the Institute for Technology and Education (ISTE), POPTECH, the Institute of Contemporary Art in conversation with Brian Greene, The Brooklyn Museum of Art in conversation with A.M. Homes, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the National Performing Arts Convention, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), as a keynote speaker at Chorus America, The University of Utah, as a Caroline Werner Gannett Project speaker, and on NPR’s Science Friday with Lisa Randall and Ira Flatow. In 2010, Feminist Press published her book, STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero.

Streb is the subject of the 2014 documentary, Born to Fly, directed by Catherine Gund (Aubin Pictures), which premiered at SXSW, followed by screenings at festivals and theatres throughout the and internationally. She and her company have also been featured in PopAction by Michael Blackwood, on PBS’s In The Life and , The David Letterman Show, BBC World News, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS This Morning, Business Insider, CNN’s Showbiz Today, ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings, Nickelodeon, NBC’s Weekend Today, MTV, Channel 11’s News-hour, NY 1, and Larry King Live. In spring 2015, Streb was the subject of Alec Wilkinson’s profile inThe New Yorker magazine. In 2003, Streb established SLAM (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics) in Brooklyn, New York. SLAM’s garage doors are always open for the community to come in and watch rehearsals, take classes, and learn to fly. Biographies, continued THE COMPANY

FABIO TAVARES DA SILVA, associate artistic director Ready? Fabio A. Tavares da Silva began his career flying as an acrobat in his native Brazil after running away with the circus at age 15. Since moving to in 1999, da Silva has been fortunate enough to have worked and performed with many amazing artists, including Miguel Gutierrez, Chameckilerner, Yvonne Meier, Jeniffer Monson, Luis Lara Malvacias, Fischerspooner, Circus Amok, Laurie Anderson, and Noemie Lafrance, to name a few. In addition to PopAction and acrobatics, da Silva is a Klein Technique teacher and a Zero Balancing practitioner, and he’s currently training to become an Alexander Technique teacher. He is also working on his solo project called ihamlet. Da Silva is extremely grateful to be a part of STREB since 2003, where he is currently the associate artistic director. He is also the co-developer of the current PopAction curriculum taught at SLAM. Da Silva would like to extend a special thank you to Elizabeth, Kim, and the whole team. Go!

JACKIE CARLSON

Coming from Detroit, Michigan, Jackie Carlson has studied ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, and gymnastics since the age of six. She’s won many awards and scholarships in the dance competition world, including Miss Dance of Michigan in 2000 and Most Outstanding Dancer ‘01 with NYC Dance Alliance. She spent five consecutive summers on full scholarship at The Milwaukee Ballet School and moved to New York City right out of high school to join The Dance Theatre of Harlem ballet company. She has studied under and has been directed by such renowned dance artists as , Jordeen Ivanov-Ericson, Nicolas Petrov, Mia Michaels, and Dan Karaty, but her dream came true when her lifetime goal of becoming a stunt double and her love of dancing collided, and STREB appeared!

JUSTINA KAMIEL GRAYMAN

Justina Kamiel Grayman was raised in Tennessee and started recreational gymnastics at age seven. She “quit” gymnastics at 13 because she thought she was “too old,” but continued tumbling and found a new love for sprinting in high school. She ventured to Stanford University for her undergraduate studies, and there, she began taking dance classes and re-kindled her love for gymnastics. She encountered STREB in her senior year at Stanford and performed Crash with other Stanford dancers/gymnasts who were taught the piece by STREB company members. After moving to New York City to pursue a PhD, she decided she needed to dream big and also began intensive training in ballet, Horton, and contemporary. After five years in the city, she decided to take class at SLAM just for fun. That fun turned into a great physical, psychological, and spiritual challenge in which Grayman is honored to take part.

FELIX HESS

Felix Hess has appeared in numerous dance and musical theatre workshops in New York and New Jersey since 2001. He holds a bachelor of arts degrees in theatre and dance performance from Marymount Manhattan College. Before being offered to join the STREB Company, Hess toured nationally and internationally with the musical Cats. Since joining STREB in 2012 he has had the privilege to work on many projects, including The Holland Dance Festival, The Park Avenue Armory, The Fall for Dance Festival at the Delacorte, and One Extraordinary Day. Many thanks to all the humans he calls family for their love, laughter, and support. He is grateful for this opportunity to show you his spirit. Love + Light Biographies, continued CASSANDRE JOSEPH

Cassandre Joseph was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She began training in artistic gymnastics at the age of four. Her career spanned 18 years, during which she earned several state, regional, and national titles. Since her retirement, Cassandre has searched for a replacement in dance, capoeira, and in performing aerial arts. She holds a bachelor of arts in English literature from Cornell University. She’s ecstatic to have found STREB.

SAMANTHA JAKUS

Samantha Jakus, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, would call her journey a true Rocky story. A fight to explore the extremes of moving beyond the body’s physical limits has led her to STREB! She has trained in dance, tumbling, and circus arts. Jakus has a bachelor of fine arts in dance from Temple University. Her choreography has been shown in the Philly Fringe Festival. She was awarded an Emerging Artists Commissioning Program (EACP) grant in 2012 for her piece, Raging Bull. To further her fear and risk training with STREB, Jakus is studying and performing as a professional wrestler. Jakus says, “tell my family I love them and thank you.”

DANIEL RYSAK

Daniel Rysak proudly claims West Palm Beach, Florida, as home. Rysak attended The Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts for theatre and was introduced to dance by Garry Q. Lewis. These skills hurled Rysak into the bachelor of fine arts in music theatre program at Florida State University where Kate Gelabert molded him into the dancer he is today. Rysak has performed at the 2010 Winter and 2012 Summer Cultural Olympiad, at the Holland Dance Festival, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, and the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. He has also been on the road with the North American Tours of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cats. Rysak is so grateful to be making contributions to the evolution of human flight and is honored to play, create, and invent with his STREB family.

JAMARIOUS LASHAUN STEWART

Born and reared in Huntsville, Alabama, Jamarious Stewart has always been on the move. At the age of eight he began his gymnastics career and hasn’t stopped, finding the height he needed to reach the goal but adding dance, giving him the grace and beauty of the accomplished performer you see today. He found his passion for dance and continued to fulfill his dream throughout high school and then in college at the University of Alabama (UA), where he accepted a scholarship as a dance and psychology major. While at UA the diverse faculty helped to expose him to the “artistry of dance.” As a dance company member at UA he worked with national choreographers and renowned companies such as American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and The Jose Limon Foundation. After moving back to New York in 2013, he made his home as the newest action hero with STREB, where physical athleticism and beauty of movement are combined. He wishes to thank all those who aided in his artistry; his family, friends, and, above all, God for the favor he has shown him throughout his life. Stewart says, “STREB, I’m home! Roll tide!” Biographies, continued LEONARDO GIRON TORRES

Leonardo Torres is a dreamer, a risk taker, and an adventure seeker who has been flying with STREB for the past five years. His fascination with movement began at a young age in Colombia as a competitive gymnast before he discovered that dance is his passion. He began studying ballet under the direction of Cindy Mancini and Joseph Carrow. In 2006 he graduated from George Mason University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in dance. He has also worked with several renowned choreographers, including Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Keith Thompson, Carla Perlo, Reggie Glass, and Helenius J. Wilkins. He performed a leading role in the 2003 national tour of Burgess’ Nightingale. Currently, he also works as an independent personal trainer throughout the city where he explores his fascination for movement. Torres wishes to thank his closest friends and loved ones for all their love and support, and says, “acrobacias con amor y paz!”

ZAIRE BAPTISTE, DJ/MC Zaire has been with STREB for over six years and has seen his position in the show organically manifest. Coming from a film and television background at Alabama A&M University and Long Island University, Baptiste is a music video and film director with numerous credits to his name. His expansion into the world of extreme action combines his love of Elizabeth Streb’s work and ideologies with his sports background and theatrical training. Baptiste uses all of these elements to help shape his stage character. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Baptiste embodies the gritty extreme action characteristics that are inherent in STREB’s work.

LAURA FLANDERS, Larry Walters story

Laura Flanders is a long-time journalist, author, and media activist. She wrote the New York Times bestseller Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (2004, Verso), as well as Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change in America (2007, The Penguin Press). She’s the founder and host of GRITtv. You can find out more at lauraflanders.com and follow her on Twitter @GRITlaura.

ADAM H. GREENE, assistant lighting design Adam Greene has recently worked with America Amerique and Jena Co. Tour (2010). He has been assistant lighting designer for A Boy and His Soul (The Vineyard Theatre) and Othello (Shakespeare on the Sound). Greene’s off-Broadway design credits include, at The Public Theater in New York City, Embedded (written and directed by Tim Robbins) and, at 59E59, Cooking for Kings and Beau Brummell (directed by Simon Green). His Los Angeles design credits include, with the Actors’ Gang, Blood, Love, Madness (directed by Brent Hinkley); Little (directed by Shira Pivens); Self Defense (directed by Beth Milles); and Embedded and Orlando (directed by Joyce Pivens). With Evidence Room, credits include Flow My Tears and The Policeman Said (directed by Bart DeLorenzo); CRINGE (directed by DeLorenzo); and 99¢ DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA (2002, choreographed by Ken Roht). Greene has also worked with The Boston Court on Pera Palas (directed by Michael Michetti). He received the Garland Award for lighting design. Greene was a resident assistant at the Mark Taper Forum from 2003 to 2006, and he received a master of fine arts from New York University, Tisch. For more information, please visit www.greenelightdesign.com. Biographies, continued WENDALL HARRINGTON, projection design Wendall Harrington received the Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle, and American Theatre Wing Awards for the projections in The Who’s Tommy. Other Broadway credits include Amy’s View, The Good Body, Civil War, Putting it Together, Freak, Ragtime, The Capeman, Racing Demon, Company, Having Our Say, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, The Heidi Chronicles, My One and Only, and They’re Playing Our Song. Harrington’s off- Broadway credits include Les MIZrahi (as visual director), As Thousands Cheer, Merrily We Roll Along (three times!), Hapgood, and the ill-fated Whistle Down the Wind. Her credits include Brundibar, Grapes of Wrath, Nixon in China, A View From The Bridge, The Photographer, The Magic Flute, Ghosts of Versailles, Rusalka, and Orpheo ed Euridice. Ballet credits include Anna Karenina with Othello Ballet Mecanique. Harrington worked on concerts such as the Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense tour, Ira Gershwin at 100 at Carnegie Hall, and Simon and Garfunkel’s Old Friends tour, as well as with Chris Rock. Her credits also include player introductions for the New York Knicks, the Rangers, and Liberty at Madison Square Garden. Harrington is the recipient of the 1995 Obie Award for excellence in projection design and the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration. The former design director of Esquire Magazine, she produced Words on Fire for PBS, as well as two fine daughters. She lectures widely on projection design and is on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama.

ANDREA LAUER, costume design

Andrea Lauer has worked on American Idiot on Broadway, and her off-Broadway credits include Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage), ’Or (Women’s Project), The Butcher of Baraboo (Second Stage Uptown), Elephant Dreams (Joyce), Status Entropus (New York City and Greece), and Our Lady of 121st Street and Hair (New York University). Touring credits include the Bring It On, the Musical national tour and the American Idiot national tour. Regionally, Lauer has worked on TRU (Baystreet); Bring It On, the Musical (Alliance Theatre); and American Idiot (Berkeley Rep). Selected credits with the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, include The Crucible, After the Fall, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Steel Magnolias, and Soccer Moms (Fleetwood Stage). She also designs for dance and has worked with The Trey McIntyre Project and STREB (on Kiss the Air! and FORCES), and additionally is a fashion stylist. Her fashion designs have been published in Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour, and her styling work has been seen in the 2010 April issue of American Vogue, as well as on the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. Lauer received a master of fine arts degree from New York University, where she was also a Baryshnikov Fellow.

JIM LEWIS, book

Jim Lewis wrote and co-conceived FELA!, which was nominated for 11 Tony Awards and three Oliviers for the National Theatre production in London. Lewis personally received nominations for both Best Musical and Best Book for a Musical for these productions. Prior to that, he also received a Lortell Award for Outstanding Musical for FELA! and an unprecedented two Drama Desk nominations in the same year for Best Book for both FELA! and This Beautiful City with The Civilians. FELA! recently completed a two-year worldwide tour. Lewis’s other selected works include, on Broadway, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (TONY, Drama Desk nominations) and Dangerous Games (both w/ Graciela Daniele). Off-Broadway and regional credits include Tango Apaisionado, Ionesco’s The Chairs, and Ibsen’s Lady from the Sea. Opera and dance credits include Paul Dresher’s The Tyrant, Ballet Hispanico’s Nightclub, Philip Glass’s Les Enfants Terribles, and PastFORWARD with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Dramaturg includes House Arrest (Anna Deavere Smith), Drawn to Death (Art Spiegelman), Cymbeline and Waste (with Bartlett Sher), and Lincoln Center’s WOZA AFRIKA Festival. Lewis has worked with Bill T. Jones on Dream On Monkey Mountain, Chapel/Chapter, and Still/Here (20th Anniversary Season). Biographies, continued ERIK PEARSON, projection design Erik Pearson is a director and projection designer. He has directed in New York for Playwrights Realm, American Opera Projects, HERE, terraNOVA, Studio NYC, New York Theater Experiment, Lark, and NYU/Tisch, as well as regionally for Shakespeare Theatre Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and BRAVA! He has designed projections in New York for SOHO Playhouse, Intar, STREB, and the new musical Heading East with B.D. Wong. Regionally he has designed for El Paso Opera, The Magic, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Marin Theatre Company, and Center Rep, as well as Moorehouse/Spellman College, Brandeis Theater Company, and The University of California at Santa Cruz, where he taught theatrical projection design. Upcoming projects include directing Billy Witch, a new play by Gregg Moss, for Studio 42. Pearson holds a master of fine arts degree in directing from Yale School of Drama. For more information, please visit www.elpearson.com.

ALEX RAPPAPORT, cinematographer Alex Rappoport is an award-winning cinematographer, editor, and independent video producer, specializing in documentary filmmaking. Since 2009 he has been the director of photography for History Channel’sSwamp People series. From 1996 to 2001 he produced numerous segments for WNET’s City Arts and PBS’s Egg: The Arts Show. More recently he has directed and shot several music videos, image spots for the Sundance Channel and Nick Jr., and documentary shorts for Etsy.com and Gallery HD, and he has also produced multiple interstitial programs for the Sundance Channel. In the early 1990s, Rappaport shot and/or cut numerous promotional pieces for MTV, VH1, USA Network, Nickelodeon, and The Sci-Fi Channel. As a director of photography, he has numerous broadcast credits, including National Geographic, The History Channel, PBS, Food Network, VOOM, and several Emmy Award-winning programs for HBO and HBO Family.

DAVID VAN TIEGHEM, original music and sound design

David Van Tieghem’s Broadway credits include Doubt, Born Yesterday, Arcadia, Elling, The Normal Heart, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Reckless, Inherit the Wind, Frozen, After Miss Julie, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Crucible, The Good Body, and Uncle Vanya. His off-Broadway credits include Happy Hour, The Lyons, Wit, Through a Glass Darkly, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, Farragut North, How I Learned to Drive, The Grey Zone, The House in Town, The Paris Letter, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Jack Goes Boating, and Woman Before A Glass. His film and television credits includeBuried Prayers, Eye of God, Working Girls, Penn & Teller, and The Wooster Group. Van Tieghem has also worked with names in the dance world, such as Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Michael Moschen, Elisa Monte, Hilary Easton, and the Boston Ballet. He has been a percussionist for Laurie Anderson, the Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and Steve Reich, as well as the Love of Life Orchestra. Van Tieghem has recorded several CDs: Thrown for a Loop, Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, and These Things Happen. For more information, please visit www.vantieghem.com. Biographies, continued ROBERT WIERZEL, lighting design As a lighting designer, Robert Wierzel has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in theatre, dance, contemporary music, museums, and opera on stages throughout the country and abroad. Wierzel has a long collaboration (26 years) with choreographer and director Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company. His other dance collaborations include works with choreographers Elizabeth Streb, Liz Gerring, Andrea Miller/Gallim Dance Company, Doug Varone, Larry Goldhuber and Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran, Molissa Fenley, Donna Uchizono, Alonzo King, Charlie Moulton, Arthur Aviles, Margo Sappington, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Wierzel’s credits include productions with the opera companies of Paris-Garnier, Tokyo, Toronto, Bergen & Kristiansand in Norway, Folk Opera in Sweden, Glimmerglass Festival, , Seattle, Boston Lyric, Minnesota, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, Virginia, Chicago Lyric, Montreal, Vancouver, Florida Grand, and Portland, among others. His theatre work has been seen on- and off-Broadway, including the musical FELA! (Tony Award nomination) and at the Royal National Theatre of London. Wierzel’s extensive theatre work includes productions at most major regional theatres within the country, from New York to San Francisco.

BRANDON WOLCOTT, co-sound design and additional music Brandon Wolcott has composed music and designed sound for dance and theatre at dozens of productions around New York City and the U.S. Recent and/or notable productions include Hit the Wall at Barrow Street, Henry V at Two River (Original Music), Kiss the Air at The Park Avenue Armory, Titus Andronicus at The Public (Original Music), The Maids with Red Bull, and The Tenant with the Woodshed Collective. New York City credits include MTC, The Public, Ontological, The Joyce, LaMama, DTW, Clubbed Thumb, 59E59, PS122, 3LD, New Ohio, and many more.

ROBERT WOODRUFF, associate director Robert Woodruff has directed over 60 productions across the U.S. at theatres such as Lincoln Center Theater, Public Theater, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Most recently, he directed Celebration at the Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj, Bergman’s Autumn Sonata at Yale Rep, and Madame White Snake for Opera Boston, which premiered at The Beijing Music Festival. Internationally, his work has been seen at the Habimah National Theatre in Israel, Sydney Arts Festival, Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Hong Kong Festival of the Arts, Jerusalem Festival, and Spoleto Festival USA. Early work includes many premiere productions with Sam Sheppard, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. He is currently on the faculty of Yale School of Drama. United States Artists named Woodruff a 2007 USA Biller Fellow. FORCES PRODUCTION STAFF

Anne McDougall, production manager Matt McAdon, technical director LeeAnn Lisella, production stage manager Tim Grassel, company tour manager Amanda Lemen, lighting supervisor Raul Zbengheci, video supervisor Timberlake, costume construction

SLAM ACTION ADMINISTRATORS

Elizabeth Streb, founder and artistic director Susan Meyers and Cathy Einhorn, co-managing directors Henry Liles, finance manager Mary Schindler, registrar, marketing and administrative relations Bobby Hedglin-Taylor, España/STREB Trapeze Academy director Ashley Walters, director of education and community engagement Cassandre Joseph, education liaison Aaron Henderson, graphic design

BOOKING INFO CAMI, Columbia Artists Management Inc 1790 Broadway New York, NY 10019-1412 Tel: (212) 841-9500 Fax: (212) 841-9744 email: Tim Fox at [email protected] web: http://www.cami.com

PUBLICITY CONTACT Susan Meyers and Cathy Einhorn Tel: (718) 384-6491 Email: [email protected]

BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR STREB, INC Cheryl Batzer, Sheron Davis, Anita Durst, Elizabeth Streb, John Charles Thomas, Craig Tooman, and Andrea Woodner

ADVISORY BOARD Rachel Bellow, Susan Chin, Antonia Contro, Kristy Edmunds, Bruce W. Ferguson, Danita S. Geltner and Thomas A. Gentile, Paula Gifford, Joe Hall, Carey Lovelace, Helen Marden, Laura Michaels, Harry Mizrahi, Ann Philbin, Robert Reitzfeld, Ellen Salpeter, Suzanne Shaker, Holly Sidford, William Siroty, Catharine R. Stimpson, Liz Wood, and Philip Yenawine FORCES, continued CONTRIBUTORS

Government Agencies: National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Department of Youth Development, New York City Council, Office of the Mayor of New York City, Office of the Brooklyn Borough President, and City Council Member Stephen Levin

Institutional Supporters: Alice Lawrence Foundation, Inc.; American Music Center; ArtPlace; Artography: Arts in a Changing America (a grant and documentation program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity funded by the Ford Foundation); Asian Cultural Council; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Booth Ferris Foundation; Denham Wolf; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Engaging Dance Audiences (administered by Dance/USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation); Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Fund for the City of New York; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Hyde & Watson Foundation; Jerome Foundation; David L. Klein Jr. Foundation; Lambent Fund of the Tides Foundation; the MAP Fund (a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation & the Rockefeller Foundation); Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International; National Dance Project; New York Community Trust’s Program for Performing Arts Groups; NYC Dance Response Fund, a program of Dance/NYC established by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation; Rockefeller Foundation’s New York City Cultural Innovation Fund; Foundation; Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation; and Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust

Individuals: Cristina Arguedas and Carole Migden, Hugo Barreca, Trisha Brown and Burt Barr, Cheryl* and Max Batzer, Ben Cameron, Kate Clinton and Urvashi Viad, Jill Crawford and Craig Tooman*, Molly Davies, Sheron Davis* and Nat Lipstadt, Laura Donnelley, Eve Ensler, Steven Feldman and Suzanne Studier-Feldman, Danita Geltner-Gentile and Thomas Gentile, Liz Gerring Radke and Kirk Radke, Susan Grey, Agnes Gund, Catherine Gund, Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia, Dorothy Lichtenstein, George Loening, Ann Luce and Jonathan Auerbach, Helen Marden, Matthew Marks, Cynthia Mayeda, Ellen Poss, Chula Reynolds, Michael Robinson, Bill Siroty and Bill Stelling, Doug Steiner, Catharine R. Stimpson, Nicole and David Wachter, Suzanne Weil, and Andrea Woodner* and Allison Kavey *Board Member

Former STREB dancers whose contributions and movements live on in our hearts, bodies, and minds and continue to inform our actions: Sarah Callan, John Kasten, Sarah Donnelly, Chris Lee, Ami Ipapo, Kevin Lindsay, Joshua Martinez, Yushemepree Spencer, Christine Chen, DeeAnn Nelson, Terry Dean Bartlett, Aaron Henderson, Jonah Spear, Chantal Deeble, Weena Pauly, Nikita Maxwell, Eli McAfee, Lisa Dalton, Sheila Carreras Brandson, Brian Brooks, Hope Clark, Brandon O’Dell, Matthew Stromberg, Christine McQuade, Michael Schwartz, Boris Willis, Diann Sichell, Joseph Arias, Daniel MacIntosh, Nancy Alfaro, Jane Setteducatto, Henry Beer, Peter LaRose, Jorge Collazo, Gary Lutes, Brian Levy, Katrina Birchfield, John Landes, Paula Gifford, Mark Robinson, Soldana Rivera, Ned Malouf, Adolpho Pati, Christina Knight, Liam Clancy, Guadaloupe Martinez, Alma Langley, and Jason Jaworski FORCES, continued SPECIAL THANKS

Burt Barr; Hugo Barreca; Ted Berger; Cliff Broder; Trisha Brown; Ben Cameron; Heather Carson; Anne Carson; Kate Clinton; Anita Contini; John Cowles; Sage Cowles; Molly Davies; Jonathan Denham; Denhamwolf Real Estate Services; Vic Ditto; Craig Dykers; Kristy Edmunds; Noe Espana; Ivan Espana; Steven Feldman; Bruce Ferguson; June Finch; Stephanie Flanders; Sarah Fowlkes; Danita Geltner-Gentile; Gai Gherardi; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP; Alan Gordon; Susan Grey; Agnes Gund; Hugh Herr; A.M. Homes; Hudson Scenic Theatricals; Manuel Igrejas; Margy Jenkins; Liz Koch; Margaret Ratner Kunstler; Andy Lance; Kate Levin; ASD Lionheart; George Loening; Marty Markowitz; Cynthia Mayeda; Neil Mazzella; Sam Miller; Elaine Molinar; Meredith Monk; Nic Raber; Kathy O’Donnell; Amanda Parks; Philippe Petit; Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn; Romy Revilla; Michael Robinson; Mikki Shepard; Holly Sidford; Anna Deavere Smith; Snohetta; Doug Steiner; Catharine Stimpson; Craig Tooman; Roberta Uno; Urvashi Viad; Carl Volmer; Darren Walker; Chris Wangro; Paul Wolf and Andrea Woodner; and to Laura Flanders for concept help and love.

—Elizabeth Streb

FORCES was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the MetLife Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional support was provided by ArtPlace, Bloomberg Philanthropies, David L. Klein Jr. Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Lambent Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Surdna Foundation. Engagement Activities

Wednesday, September 30, 7:00 PM FILM SCREENING AND DIALOGUE WITH THE ARTIST Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity Lyric Theatre, 135 College Ave., Blacksburg Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. BORN TO FLY: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb’s movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky. Revealing the passions behind the dancers’ bruises and broken noses, BORN TO FLY offers a breathtaking tale about the necessity of art, inspiring audiences hungry for a more tactile and fierce existence. Following the screening, join us for a dialogue with Elizabeth Streb on the film and STREB Extreme Action Company. Co-presented with Community Voices Free

Thursday, October 1, 2015 WORKSHOP AT MARGARET BEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL During this class, students in third grade explore STREB’s “Kid Action” principles and exercises, which “intertwine dance, athletics, boxing, rodeo, the circus, and Hollywood stuntwork into bristling muscle-and- motion vocabulary.”

Friday, October 2, 2015 SCHOOL-DAY PERFORMANCE: STREB Street and Davis Performance Hall, Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre STREB performs for students in fifth through eighth grades from the City of Radford and Floyd, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, and Roanoke Counties.

Friday, October 2, 2015 MEET THE MAKERS: ELIZABETH STREB AND MATT MCADON Street and Davis Performance Hall, Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre The artistic director and technical director of STREB participates in an intimate conversation with Theatre and Cinema students and faculty about their work and the touring of their current production, FORCES.

Special thanks to Community Voices, Margaret Beeks Elementary School, Kaye Gilliam, Susan Mattingly, Andy Morikawa, Amanda Nelson, and Max Stephenson In the Galleries

BEYOND REAL: STILL LIFE IN THE 21st CENTURY September 3–November 15, 2015 Miles C. Horton Jr. Gallery, Sherwood P. Quillen Reception Gallery

Artist Spotlight: Agniet Snoep Bridging centuries of tradition, Agniet Snoep (Dutch, based in Amsterdam; pronounced “ach-neet snope”) works with photography to create stunning, almost visceral still lifes. Vividly colored and dramatically lit against dark backgrounds, her works focus on a spare selection of still life subjects—insects, flowers, shells, and sea creatures—rendering them in sharp focus with such hyper real detail that they become provocative, strange, even other worldly.

Also on view: PHILIP TAAFFE September 3–November 15, 2015 Ruth C. Horton Gallery

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