Readings from new anthology of Tina Satter plays, February 17

Join OBIE award-winning playwright Tina Satter and members of Half Straddle theater ensemble for a reading from Satter's new anthology, Seagull (Thinking of you) on February 17, 6:30pm, at McNally Jackson.

Pete Simpson, Susie Sokol, Becca Blackwell, Erin Markey, Emily Davis, Eliza Bent and Julia Sirna-Fest will perform readings of Satter's works. Caleb Hammons will moderate a panel discussion on the ideas currently shaping experimental theater, especially the exploration of surface and superficiality.

McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street (between Lafayette and Mulberry Streets), Manhattan
(map/directions)

Devotion to motion

A few points about Elizabeth Streb, who read from her new memoir/guide--STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero--last night at NoLiTa's McNally Jackson Books:

1) The woman is funny.

2) She's definitely one of a kind, decidedly her own person.

3) She knows a lot of science--and scientists!

4) She's got guts galore.

In summation, she's the coolest thing next to Rachel Maddow. I'm looking forward to this book and to finding out all that went into creating a daring, intellectually curious and pioneering artist who investigates everything from the conventional language of dance to the nature of time.

My adventure in life began with action, 

and I know it will end with action. 

-- Elizabeth Streb

STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero (The Feminist Press, 2010)

ISBN 978-1-55861-656-1

paperback, 144 pp.

Slammin' Streb at McNally Jackson Books (posted August 12)

Slammin' Streb at McNally Jackson Books

From the Twittersphere:

STREBSLAM "STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero" Elizabeth Streb @ McNally Jackson Books 52 Prince St NYC 8/12 7:30 (TODAY!!) :D

Elizabeth Streb Author of STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero (The Feminist Press, $18.95) Elizabeth Streb has been testing the potential of the human body since childhood. Can she fly? Can she run up walls? Can she break through glass? How fast can she go? Combining memoir and theory, Streb conveys how she became an extreme action choreographer, developing a form of movement that’s more NASCAR than modern dance, more boxing than ballet. This book is for those who try or are willing to do just about anything to become a hero in their own way. Streb believes that true movement invention (the rubric of her investigations) happens accidentally with the milling together of strangers and out of the diverse movement voices that accidentally cross paths. Her dance and choreography organization SLAM is the Petrie dish that feeds the possibility for these new forms to emerge.