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Elizabeth Streb has been testing the potential of the human body since childhood. Can she fly? Can she run up walls? Can she break through glass? How fast can she go?  Inspired by circuses, rodeos, daredevils, stunt work, and extreme sports, Streb performances might include custom-made trapezes, trusses, trampolines, and flying machines, with dancers diving off towering scaffolding or bouncing off mattresses.  Come learn more about the dancer and the dance when Elizabeth Streb reads from her new autobiography STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero. 

Jack Hitt is perhaps best known as your favorite storyteller on “This American Life.” The one about the crazy superintendent who really was in the Brazilian mafia?  That’s his.  The one about the endearingly hubristic Russian teen who sets out on a boat from the edge of Brooklyn and ends up shipwrecked for days--with the towers of Manhattan just beyond his sight?  That’s his, too.  And the piece about the prison inmates who performed Hamlet with the sensitivity and perspective of great Shakespearean actors-- that’s also a Jack Hitt story.  In keeping with the theme tonight, Jack will read a work-in-progress titled “We Are Vikings.”