Arts & Ideas: Hold On Tight; While Fest-Opener Streb Makes You Sweat

New Haven Register › March 08, 2007

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They will start off with a splash and then take you into the wild blue yonder. They'll do all the work, and as it's been said of them, "They dance. You sweat." STREB is a dance company which defies definition, yet it spends a lot of time defining it: exploring boundaries or lack of them, taking apart and putting movements back together just to see how they work spatially, pushing the human form into fearless, fast and free-form movements that leave audiences breathless.

The company of seven dancers will perform two works this weekend at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas: "Splash," a duet in which the dancers run and fly into a pool of 340 gallons of water to start, and by the end displace 200 gallons. That's Saturday on the Green.

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Arts & Ideas: Hold On Tight; While Fest-Opener Streb Makes You Sweat

The other is "Wild Blue Yonder" - a piece commissioned by Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va., for the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' hist...

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