STREB is a dance company with a passion for creating intimate personal connections with visceral work that dissolves the fourth wall between performers and audiences. Founded by coreographer and MacArthur Genius grant winner Elizabeth Streb in 1979, STREB’s works fuse dance, gymnastics, sports, and the American circus to create performances of jaw-dropping technical precision and soaring, dramatic flight.

The STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM) is committed to artistic experimentation and inclusiveness, open access, and community engagement. Walls literally disappear when the warehouse loading gate at STREB’s practice facility, a former mustard factory adjacent to the Williamsburg waterfront, is opened to the street during rehearsals, encouraging anyone to approach for discussion and feedback, creating community through interaction and experimentation, and promoting inclusive dialogue without barriers.

Open Rehearsal visitors can come in and watch the process as it unfolds, and ask questions or offer ideas as they arise. STREB believes that the cross section of activity in the space feeds the creativity.