- Director: Catherine Gund
- Type: Documentaries
- Year: 2015
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Length: 82 mins
Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Revealing the passions behind the STREB dancers’ bruises and broken noses, Born to Fly offers a breathtaking tale about the necessity of art, inspiring audiences hungry for a more tactile and fierce experience.
Date: Sunday, February 8, 3:00PM
Location: Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall
Choreographer and film subject, Elizabeth Streb, will join the audience following the screening.
Filmmaker Bio:
Catherine Gund is an Emmy-nominated producer, director, writer and organizer. Her media work focuses on arts and culture, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, the environment, and other social justice issues. Her films have screened around the world in festivals, theaters, museums and schools; on PBS, Discovery’s Planet Green, and the Sundance Channel. Gund’s most recent project before Born to Fly was What’s On Your Plate?, a critically-acclaimed, multi-media project about kids and food politics, featuring a documentary, book and standards-based curriculum.
