Faces to Watch in ’95 : We’re Counting on Them : Dance

Some of them you know. Some you don’t. But the following artists, entertainers and executives have one thing in common: We’re counting on each to mae a significant impact or difference in their respective fields this year. Sure, there will be thers who make a splash, but after we talked with dozens of people who work in entertainment and the arts, these were the names mentioned most often. You might say that Jim Carrey was a face to watch in ‘94, and you would be right. But, based on “Ace Ventura,” “The Mask,” and “Dumb and Dumber,” Carrey’s ’95 should bear watching. Another pair of familiar faces--Jay Leno and David Letterman--appear on our list. Why? Haven’t we looked at these guys enough? Well, truth be told, how do you know what’s going to happen to them this year? Fame can be sooooo fleeting.

Elizabeth Streb

A teacher and role model for a generation of daredevil postmodern innovators, Elizabeth Streb, 44, specializes in choreography for non-traditional spaces--up walls and across bridges, for example.

The New York-based artist has called her work “the design of movement machines.”

Her company, Elizabeth Streb Ringside, will provide a sampling of that groundbreaking dance methodology when it appears locally for the first time in seven years in “Action Occupation,” a major project for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Aug. 30 to Sept. 10.

Besides performing pieces from its standard theater repertory, Ringside will premiere two Streb works incorporating the architectural features of MOCA’s Temporary Contemporary interior. Open rehearsals and student workshops are also scheduled during Streb’s monthlong MOCA residency.

“Action Occupation” marks the reopening of the Temporary Contemporary to the public after a three-year hiatus.