South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, 10950 SW 211 St., Cutler Bay, presents STREB EXTREME ACTION in a production of SEA (Singular Extreme Action) on Saturday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 21 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $20-$45 and can be purchased at SMDCAC.org or by calling 786-573-5300.
There also is a free Community Dance Party featuring STREB, Locos Por Juana and DJ TrookLyn on Friday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m., outside on the SMDCAC plaza. The event includes activities for kids and adults.
Elizabeth Streb’s SEA is a thrilling and death-defying work in which daredevil performers interact with mechanics and apparatus specifically created for the show. Described by the company as a wild kaleidoscope of action events and music; human bodies careening through, around, and above invented hardware, accompanied by STREB’s resident deejay and emcee.
SEA combines new work with reimagined signature STREB pieces, instilling them with new life and energy. The edge-of-your-seat motion is a spectacle of adrenaline as STREB’s action heroes redefine physics with unique “Popaction” choreography that intertwines dance, athletics, boxing, rodeo, circus, and stunt work.
For more than three decades, STREB has performed in theaters large and small and served as artists-in-residence at the world’s top art museums. At the same time, STREB has taken its work into the streets and sports stadiums — at Grand Central Station, in front of the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island’s fairground, under the arches of the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, as part of V-Day at Madison Square Garden, during halftime at a Seattle Sonics basketball game, at the Minneapolis Metrodome, on the mall outside the Smithsonian Institution and descending the façade of Bergdorf Goodman.
The company’s extensive touring calendar has included presentations at Lincoln Center Festival, Fall for Dance Festival at the Delacorte Theater, Wolf Trap Foundation, Walker Art Center, Los Angeles MOCA, Wexner Center, Spoleto USA, River-to-River Festival, Barbican Center, Theatre de la Ville, at both the Brisbane and Melbourne Festivals and in Chile, Singapore and Taiwan.
