FALL 2009 RESIDENCY
Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art
Public Event
Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
“Where Art and Audience Collide:
Smashing assumptions about arts venues”
Elizabeth Streb, Founder/Action Architect
Streb Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM), Brooklyn, New York
http://www.streb.org/
VENUE: Promenade Hall, Overture Center for the Arts
MacArthur “Genius” Award winner and world-renowned choreographer, Elizabeth Streb has been celebrated as the "Evel Knievel of dance” for her muscular, daredevil approach to movement. As she reshaped the possibilities for contemporary dance, she’s now rethinking the potential for arts facilities. In her vision, arts venues aren’t formal affairs with rigid rules, but vibrant community hotbeds where “longtime fans from the high-art crowd mingle with the at-risk kids from the local public schools and their parents.” Come see her vision as it’s unfolding in Brooklyn and through her dance company, and as it might unfold in communities around the world.