Allison Orr “Trash Dance" - Monday 11/9

College Park Scholars will host choreographer Allison Orr on November 9 as she shares her experience using dance to showcase sanitation workers’ daily routines, a project captured in the award-winning documentary “Trash Dance,” directed by Andrew Garrison.

Orr will show clips from the film and discuss making art rooted in experiences and communities that are often unnoticed and undervalued. The conversation will be moderated by Karen Bradley, an associate professor and director of the dance program in the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies.

Allison Orr 

Monday, November 9, 2015

6:00 p.m. 

1100 Cambridge Community Center

This event is free and open to all. See the “Trash Dance” trailer here. The film is also available at Amazon Video.

Orr’s “Trash Project” was named the #1 Arts Event of 2009 by the Austin American Statesman, the #1 Dance Event by The Austin Chronicle, and was awarded the Most Outstanding Dance Concert of 2009 by the Austin Critics Table.

This conversation with Allison Orr is the second event in the College Park Scholars “Trash Talks” series. The series is part of this year’s Scholars theme, Trash: The Problem of Waste in Our Lives and World. For details and updates, go to blog.umd.edu/ScholarsTalksTrash

Thanks to the Office of Undergraduate Studies for its support of the trash theme and related events. Special thanks to the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies and the Dorothy Jean Madden Professorship in Dance for support of Allison Orr’s visit.