STREB Extreme Action

Dance is an art. and Art is seen different to all people. Unique and interesting as it may be, it is taken and interpreted, seen differently through people’s eyes. There are many different types of dancing. Hip hop, lyrical, ballet, jazz, modern, etc. and many different reasons people dance. Either to express emotion, for fun, competition, religion, and much more. I recently found out about a different dance style that may interest you. It's called STREB Extreme Action. Founded in 1985 by Elizabeth Streb, a choreographer whose studies the content of movement. Streb is fascinated by movement, and uses angles and gravity to create different routines and actions that will surprise you.


Streb calls her dancers "extreme action heroes". They take immense hits and impacts to create what Streb has envisioned.  To create something new and different. As said on her website Streb, 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's choreography of movement attracts all types of audiences, kids, adults, and the public eye in general because of the fast, intricate, movement of these dancers.



This type of dancing is very new, unique and modern. Entertaining because you don't know what's going to happen next. Streb uses this to impact art and how we see it. She uses hardware to create angles and to manipulate movement, to defy gravity and create illusion of epic proportions. This type of art is very enjoyable because it resembles gymnastics and dancing. It seems very intense and hardcore because the dancers have to be very fit and athletic to do all these flips, jumps, and falls and to take the impact of each on ones body.



At the London Olympics, STREB Extreme Action performed around the London area. Sreb wanted to show London and the world the sense of wonder and impossible, something that they would remember for the rest of their lives. You can see what they did and how they performed here. Streb has a warehouse called S.L.A.M.(Streb Lab of Action Mechanics) where classes can be taken, and practices and rehearsals are open to the public. Streb wants to be an inspiration to children and the public of her community to have an impact on arts and how they’re viewed.

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