Williamsburg’s Elizabeth Streb is in the big city Friday and Saturday night as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

Streb’s work combines gymnastics,
acrobatics, athletics and dance. The company performs regularly at “Streb
Slams,” held in her workshop space, the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics,
in Williamsburg. John Rockwell in the New York Times thinks big things may be in store for Streb and her dancers.

It could be a success there, but only with some tweaking. Its blend of
cheerful stunts and (one hopes) tongue-in-cheek pomposity could lure
the same audience that flocks now to Pilobolus, Momix and even Cirque
du Soleil.

He did make a distinction between what works in Brookyn and what is required for the rest of the world.

In Brooklyn, such carryings-on can be charming, with a relaxed
informality of presentation: children squealing as the performers smash
their faces and bodies into the clear wall right in front of where
they’re sitting, and families wandering about as if at a ball game,
snacking on popcorn and soda pop.