The New York Times’ reports that dancer deeAnn Nelson, 28, was injured during a performance of a piece by Streb Extreme Action in Wiliamsburg. The dancer crushed a vertebra, underwent surgery and now has a metal rod permanently embedded in her back. According to the Times’, the dancer did not hurt herself with a particularly daring move. “She was running up a 4-by-8-foot plywood board held at an angle by a fellow dancer and was to jump off about six feet above the ground. But she slipped, caught her ankle on the top and pitched forward in a half-tuck. The dancer left the stage under her own steam as the performance, held at the company’s studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was halted, and she was taken by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital.”

Streb Extreme Action is known for highly daring, action-oriented dance. The Streb USA web site describes it as “dance, athletics, extreme sports and Hollywood stunt work into a bristling muscle and motion vocabulary that combines daring and strict precision.”

Just this week it was announced that the Streb company is moving into new, larger studio space in one of the new condo developments in Williamsburg.

The company has rallied around Nelson, “who grew up in Idaho Falls and attended the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, said she was moved by the outpouring of support, which included checks from strangers. She welcomed the benefit as a message that performers can help others. “That’s something I’ve always hoped art could do in general,” she said.”