Next conference: March 6-7, 2009, New York City
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FEATURED SPEAKER: ELIZABETH STREB
Choreographer and Founder, S.L.A.M. (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics)In 1997, Elizabeth Streb was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award. In 2008, Streb was appointed to the Mayor's Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, a commission mandated by the City Charter to advise the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. She holds a B.S. in Modern Dance and honorary doctorate of fine arts from SUNY Brockport, an honorary doctorate from Rhode Island College and is the Dean's Distinguished Scholar at New York University's Draper Program. Streb has received numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987; a Brandeis Creative Arts Award in 1991; New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessie Awards), in 1988 and 1999 for "sustained investigation of movement"; and 25 years of on-going support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). In 2003 Streb established S.L.A.M. (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics) in Brooklyn, NY (www.strebusa.org). She believes movement invention happens accidentally with the milling together of strangers and the diverse movement voices that accidentally cross paths. SLAM is the Petri dish allowing these new forms to emerge. Read Elizabeth Streb's post on EdBlog here. |
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