Friday, April 16, SLAM Studios, 51 North First St., Brooklyn, performance $10-$20, after-party free, 7:00
Tuesday, April 20, KGB Bar, 85 East Fourth St., free, 7:00
Wednesday, April 21, CUNY Graduate School, Proshansky Auditorium, 365 Fifth Ave., free, 6:30
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Celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of her Extreme Action Company, dancer and choreographer Elizabeth Streb has several special events planned surrounding the publication of her new book, STREB: HOW TO BECOME AN EXTREME ACTION HERO (Feminist Press, April 2010, $18.95). In 2003, Streb, who believes in what she calls PopAction and pure movement and stresses the physical, athletic abilities of the human body, established SLAM Studios in Williamsburg, the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics. “The doors of SLAM are never closed,” Streb writes on her website. “Performances at SLAM are not stiff, class-coded, regimented affairs; they are neighborhood happenings where the company’s longtime fans from the high-art crowd mingle with the at-risk kids from the local public schools and their parents. At the heart of this machine is the driving force of art and action, and the belief that art can provide a service to a community such that voters, taxpayers, and consumers will consider it indispensable.” Streb, the Evel Knievel of Dance, will be launching her book April 16 at SLAM Studios, where her company will perform RUN UP WALLS, followed by a reception. Next week she’ll be at KGB Bar on April 20 with Jack Hitt as part of the KGB Nonfiction Series, then participate in a reading and discussion at the CUNY Graduate Center for the CUNY Science & the Arts Series.