When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust. Elizabeth Streb More Quotes by Elizabeth Streb More Quotes From Elizabeth Streb My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies. Elizabeth Streb heart sports kids It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye. Elizabeth Streb arrows land air You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly. Elizabeth Streb protection barriers self Anything that’s too safe is not action. Elizabeth Streb safe action Skip your brain and go right to the gut. Elizabeth Streb guts skip brain