Streb's Kiss the Air!
Elizabeth Streb
December 14, 2011 - December 22, 2011
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
New York’s own “action heroes,” STREB Extreme Action stretch the limitations of the human body. Choreographer and MacArthur “genius” award recipient Elizabeth Streb will take over the Armory’s expansive Wade Thompson Drill Hall with Kiss the Air!, a performance of new large-scale works that incorporate ziplines, ladders, trampolines, hoops, and bungee cords. Among the works will be Ascension, which encompasses a 21-foot turning ladder on which nine dancers attempt to balance. Human Fountain features sixteen performers leaping from a three-story scaffold to create the effect of a human Bellagio Fountain. Also included are Falling Sideways, which uses stuntmen’s Air Ramps to hurl the dancers past the audience, and Kiss The Air! in which dancers in bungees fly over the audience—and a pool of water. Part aerial dance, part daredevil act, Elizabeth Streb’s work defies the natural laws of motion and gravity to create a visual and auditory tour de force.
Performances
December 14, 15, 16, 20, and 22, 2011 at 7:00pm
December 17 and 21, 2011 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm
December 18, 2011 at 3:00pm
Run Time
This performance is approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes with no intermission.
“The warehouse-like Park Avenue Armory is the perfect setting for their antics.”
The New Yorker
"big and loud and visually impressive”
The New York Times
Gallery
Artists & Creatives
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Action Architect and Choreographer
Elizabeth Streb
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Composer
David Van Tiegham
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Costume Design
Andrea Lauer
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Lighting Design
Robert Wierzel
Support
Major support provided by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Additional support provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, The Marc Haas Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Vidda Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
