Allison Orr, Founder and Artistic Director of Forklift Danceworks
From sanitation workers to firefighters, power linemen to maintenance teams, Allison Orr creates award-winning choreography with people whose work sustains our everyday lives. Inspired by the beauty and virtuosity in the movement of labor, Allison has honed a methodology of ethnographic choreography that engages community members as co-authors and performers in the creation of large-scale civic spectacles. Allison has been named a 2021 MacDowell Fellow, a 2019 Dance | USA Artist in Social Change, a 2018 United States Artist Fellow, and Best Choreographer of 2020 by The Austin Chronicle. Learn more at www.forkliftdanceworks.org.
