Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity is the story of a choreographer sometimes called "the Evel Knievel of dance." In over 30 years of practice, she is the pioneer of a movement form called “POPACTION,” which is couched in the exploration of human potential – both physical and emotional. Guided by Elizabeth Streb’s theory of movement – to walk on walls, dive through glass, move so fast dancers disappear and fly – the film asks: Can adrenaline be a form of medicine? When does movement become art?

Born to Fly traces the evolution of the “extreme action architect“ Streb’s more than 30 years of movement philosophy, and culminates with Streb and her dancers preparing and presenting gravity-defying performances in London’s Cultural Olympiad leading up to the 2012 Olympics.