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Getting horizontal.(Elizabeth Streb/Ringside dancers are suspended in mid-air)
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Newsweek
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September 4, 1995
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Elizabeth Streb has created a movement away from the boredom of the dance floor, which she calls 'pop action.' Performing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, her dancers move about a wall, scaffolding and a pole, suspended by harnesses rigged with pulleys.
THERE'S NO STAGE HERE: THE AUDIENCE is staring up at an enormous wall against which four dancers are dangling high in the air. Each is strapped into an elaborate harness rigged to a pulley that's attached to scaffolding behind the wall. This enables the dancers to do all sorts of horizontal moves--sashays, back flips, leaps straight out into the air--as if the wall were their floor. "When you're standing on the ...
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