Dancers, athletes and others elect to enhance their physical opportunities to optimally perform specific kinds of tasks. Various systems of training methods, of which dance training is one, are designed to increase strength, flexibility, speed, and movement fluidity or efficiency. Bodies that undergo such rigorous training systems over time to …
Elizabeth Streb is an internationally acclaimed contemporary movement artist, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is concerned with physical action that defies conventional notions of the body’s capabilities, requiring performers who are extremely flexible, strong, and daring. She makes pieces that challenge the normal definition of dance, utilizing a …
From the time that Descartes famously declared “I think, therefore I am,” Western cultures have tended to regard the body as separate from the mind. This separation has led to the development of an industrial model of the human being that treats the body as a machine and positions the mind …
