Toxic, Risk, Danger

Studio 360 | Jan 11, 2011

Can you imagine a job where the materials you work with daily could actually kill you? Kurt Andersen and the choreographer Elizabeth Streb explore why creative people sometimes put themselves at risk. We’ll hear why Streb asks her dancers to dive through glass, and a sculptor describes how he constructed a tornado of fire. And an injured trumpeter tries to get back his chops.

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