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Article Excerpt
Just over a year ago, Elizabeth Streb returned to the campus of the State University of New York at Brockport to receive an honorary doctorate. Thirty years before, she'd roared out of town on her Harley to forge a rebel's life in dance. Now here she was, seated with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Upon receipt of her degree, Streb spoke briefly, exhorting the students to follow their dreams. Next at the podium, Clinton picked up on the theme, referring to "the choreographer, Dr. Streb." Back in her seat, Streb threw up her arms in victory and mouthed the word "yes!" In the front rows of the audience, her dance teachers--she'd studied Limon, Humphrey, and Weidman--beamed and wept. The prodigal daughter, now famous for radical moves called "skudges" and "pops" and "suicide dives," had returned, and in a cap and gown. She was being honored for her ongoing, outgoing work--movement that not only has idiosyncratic language and equipment but its own technique, a pedagogy that amounts to a philosophy she calls "pop action." Streb, who is in no way sentimental (though in every way a deeply feeling person), says the moment was "oddly touching."
Her life has not been short of honors--among them a MacArthur "genius" award, a Bessie Award, a position as Dean's Special Scholar at New York University, where she pursues studies in higher mathematics, physics, architecture, and philosophy--but the trip...
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