Born to Fly

Name: Born to Fly
Genre: Action, Biography, Sport, Documentary
Released: September 10, 2014
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 78

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Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

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Release Date: September 10, 2014

Summary: Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Born to Fly traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb’s movement philosophy as sheElizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Born to Fly traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb’s movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky.… Expand

Director: Catherine Gund

Genre(s): Action, Biography, Sport, Documentary

Runtime: 82 min

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The Playlist Katie Walsh

Oct 9, 2014

If there’s any criticism to be levied, it’s just that we wanted to see more dance, which can’t quite be fully captured on film, only in person. Still, capturing Streb’s artistry, inspiration and thought processes behind her work makes it more than worthwhile. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Sep 9, 2014

There's much in Born to Fly to thrill to, dream with, flinch from: dancers leaping from a great whirling wheel and smacking onto mats far below; dancers ducking and leaping a wickedly spinning I-beam or cinderblock. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Sep 9, 2014

Born to Fly teasingly suggests that some displays of avant-garde virtuosity could be enjoyed equally by venturesome aesthetes, dance enthusiasts and devotees of World Wrestling Entertainment. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Sep 9, 2014

A singularly focused and avant-garde talent, Ms. Streb bends the messy rush of risk to her indomitable will. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Sep 25, 2014

Dance purists might dismiss Streb's work as circus gymnastics, but a bracing aesthetic is inseparable from the corporal shocks, as is an insistence on challenging accepted constraints. Through Gund's film, a wider audience stands to be not just amazed but provoked. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Sep 10, 2014

Director Catherine Gund most successfully depicts the visceral impact of Streb’s work with her footage of the 2012 Olympics. Read full review

John DeFore

Sep 10, 2014

Catherine Gund's Born to Fly works very well as a portrait of a maverick artistic sensibility, even if it will leave some viewers wanting more in terms of performance footage. Read full review

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