Releasing the Imagination

In this paper, Maxine Greene illuminates the concept of an aesthetic education within her discussion of the work of New York based dance company STREB. Elizabeth Streb's daredevil, postmodern acrobatic performance piece provides this paper with the metaphor of the wall—from the glass wall through which the STREB dancers literally ‘break through’. The idea of arts education is to challenge the wall, not passively walk away—to take the risks, to ask the questions, to be willing to engage.