Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts | TRASH DANCE
The Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts (AVPA) presents the award-winning documentary film “Trash Dance,” featuring Choreographer Allison Orr. It showcases the beauty of garbage trucks and the dedicated workers who collect our trash through a moving performance.
Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she rides along with Austin sanitation workers on their daily routes to observe and later convince them to perform a most unlikely spectacle. On an abandoned airport runway, two dozen trash collectors and their trucks deliver — for one night only — a stunningly beautiful and moving performance, in front of an audience of thousands, who are awed to discover how in the world a garbage truck can “dance.”
Choreographer Allison Orr will be present for a Q&A session.
Production of TRASH DANCE was made possible in part through the support of the Warren Skaaren Charitable Trust, Humanities TX, Texas Folklife, the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin, and individual donors through Kickstarter and direct support. Distribution of TRASH DANCE supported, in part, by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees-AFSCME, by Charlotte Herzele, and by individual donors.
Date: April 10, 2025
Time: 7pm
Location: Rudder Forum