By Ceylan Yeginsu and Idil Abshir
What if human flying wasn’t as impossible as it sounded? For a group based in Williamsburg it’s a daily reality. At S.L.A.M—the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics— Elizabeth Streb, founder, engineers human flight through dance. Her dancers, also called Actioneers, parachute off scaffoldings, swing in hoops, dance on walls, and generally challenge gravity. The group has toured around the world, and is currently presenting their Fall season in New York City.
Their dance laboratory, where they rehearse and perform, is open to the public who are encouraged to watch or take some classes of their own. In an effort to further blur the lines between public and private, and to cultivate audience interaction Streb has taken on a new project: satellite broadcasting the performance to a group in New Jersey. Elizabeth Streb views all her efforts as an attempt the change the American cultural paradigm.
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