Elizabeth Streb: My quest to defy gravity and fly
Elizabeth Streb: Mi afán por desafiar la gravedad
Elizabeth Streb is an extreme action specialist who flies, crash-lands and invents hardware to get higher, faster, sooner, harder. Full bio
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no lo han hecho todavía?
learning to fly my whole life.
on the northern shore of Lake Ontario,
del lago Ontario.
detrás de mi padre adoptivo,
father around.
by things that moved,
lo que tuviera movimiento.
holding them in my hands,
its unrelenting force,
por su fuerza implacable.
my father's barn down --
el cobertizo de mi padre...
con un peligro real:
I caught a fly in a mason jar.
una mosca en un frasco de vidrio.
en pleno vuelo, traza ángulos agudos
in midair with acute angles,
there were things moving.
with their very own causal rhythms,
sus propios ritmos causales,
según sean las partes que las conforman:
on their component parts:
kangaroos hopped.
vuelan, los canguros saltan.
was falling accidentally, tripping,
fue cuando resbaló accidentalmente
out from under you,
debajo de nosotros,
I did my experiments alone,
experimentos por mi cuenta,
across the United States
"Busco mi destino".
I mimicked that fly in the box.
something about flight.
New York City loft,
en la ciudad de Nueva York,
didn't really enjoy getting hurt,
le gusta lastimarse,
that we weren't flying yet
to that false idea
de que deberíamos volar como las aves
Minutes, maybe hours.
Minutos, o quizá horas.
es complejo y personal,
rather interesting, foreign sensation."
sensación interesante y extraña".
we were going to have to learn to land.
a volar, hay que aprender a aterrizar.
one of them -- said,
con una motocicleta.
when you try to land it."
intentas aterrizar con ella".
an impact technique?
inventamos una técnica de impacto?
our base of support?"
nuestra base de apoyo?".
sound than "wham-o."
the streets of New York City
all over the world a little bit,
por todo el mundo, o parte,
to go to Kitty Hawk
a actuar en Kitty Hawk
del primer vuelo de los hermanos Wright.
of flight with the Wright Brothers.
to stay there longer.
permanecer más tiempo en el aire.
you will do well to sit on a fence
te conviene sentarte en un banco
you must mount a machine
debes subirte a una máquina,
with its tricks by actual trial."
y familiarizarte con los trucos".
junkie inside of me.
que hay en mí.
to unhabitual places in space --
en espacios poco comunes,
our vertical comfort zone,
zona de confort en posición vertical,
con turbulencias inesperadas
de las formas más extrañas,
and moves out from under us --
y desaparece por debajo del cuerpo...
who is trying to hit a note
intenta tocar una nota
por la voz humana,
of my prototypic machines.
mis prototipos de máquinas.
higher, faster, sooner, harder,
más rápido o más fuerte,
our very own spaceships.
propias naves espaciales.
invisible, dangerous territories,
en territorios desconocidos,
la prueba, que me avise.
to try this, let me know.
mejores máquinas a Londres
of our best machines to London
más representativos.
we unlocked our brake and fell --
liberamos los frenos y caímos
estoy convencida de eso.
of London's City Hall.
del City Hall de Londres.
300 feet above the ground,
de 90 m de altura, miré hacia abajo
the sky, a bird, a plane -- and then us.
un ave, un avión... y a nosotros,
is for everybody.
es para todo el mundo.
mason jar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
de vidrio en Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Streb de la mecánica de la acción.
for Action Mechanics.
de semillas de mostaza.
the use of a petri dish,
Streb Extreme Action
and invent extreme action together.
y así, juntos, creamos la acción extrema.
forma, edad, capacidad,
every class, all genders,
raza, clase, género,
the outcast and the cool,
los rechazados y los aceptados,
y los que buscan el riesgo.
all over the world,
a flying training center.
un centro de aprendizaje para volar.
to just dream about flying,
con soñar con volar,
y de hecho pueden.
the hit and the impact,
del golpe y del impacto,
getting up afterwards.
cuando se incorporan.
causes smiles to get more common,
aprenden a volar
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Streb - Action and hardware architectElizabeth Streb is an extreme action specialist who flies, crash-lands and invents hardware to get higher, faster, sooner, harder.
Why you should listen
Elizabeth Streb is known for her unique brand of movement, "Pop Action," which intertwines dance, athletics, boxing, rodeo, the circus, stunt work and the invention of action gizmos. In 1985, she founded STREB Extreme Action Company to push the limitations of the human body and, in 2003, she established SLAM (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics) in Brooklyn. For the 2012 London Olympic Games, the company was commissioned to create One Extraordinary Day, a series of events across the city that included dancers "bungee dancing" off Millennium Bridge and abseiling down City Hall. The 2016 film OXD, directed by Craig Lowy, follows these events. In 2017, STREB was commissioned by Bloomberg LLP to create a series of events to open the new corporate headquarters in London and to launch the CityLab Conference in Paris.
Streb is the recipient of numerous honors including a MacArthur Fellowship (1997) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987). She lectures regularly across the country and her book, STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero, was published by Feminist Press in 2010. In 2014, Born to Fly: STREB vs. Gravity a documentary directed by Catherine Gund, premiered at Film Forum NYC, was aired on PBS and nominated for an Emmy. It is available on iTunes and Netflix. STREB's rehearsals at SLAM are always open to the public.
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