STREB EXTREME ACTION DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

What can the human body do? Or maybe, what can it not do?

In DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME, STREB performers—called “Action Heroes”—dive, fling, flip, and fall off of massive moving structures with split-second timing and fearless precision. Audiences gasp, laugh, tense up, and wonder how what they’re seeing is even possible.

Founder Elizabeth Streb has been called the Evel Knievel of dance, a thrill-seeker, and a Superwoman. She is the founder of SLAM—the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics—in Brooklyn, where her company has spent decades developing a movement practice called PopAction: a fusion acrobatics, rodeo, dance and athletics, rooted in a lifelong obsession with what happens to the human body when it is fully, fearlessly committed to motion. Her philosophy: “Anything too safe is not action.”

The company transforms physical risk into spectacles of wonder, exploring the outer extremes of human movement, asking what becomes possible when courage, creativity, athleticism, and engineering collide.

Student tickets always $11. Eligible for CLE. Find out more and buy tickets at: https://carolinaperformingarts.org/events/streb/