Event

Trash Dance

TRASH DANCE
USA, 2012, 65 minutes
Director: Andrew Garrison
Trash Dance is a year spent with choreographer Allison Orr as she rides out on garbage trucks and persuades employees of the Austin Department of Solid Waste Services to collaborate in a public dance performance. The eventual performance of sixteen trucks and twenty-four workers, on an airport tarmac, attracts an audience of over 2,000 and blows away the critics. The performance changes the relationship between the audience and the performers in a small but profound way.

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NIGHT AT THE DANCE
USA, 2011, 13 minutes
Director: Annie Silverstein
In the late 1800s, tens of thousands of Czech immigrants settled farmland in Central Texas, and brought with them the tradition of the community dance hall. Fewer than half remain open today. Night at the Dance profiles Sefcik Hall, in Seaton, one of the last true Czech dance halls in Texas, and the elderly folk who still come there each Sunday to wax the floor and dance the polka, even as they struggle with old age, illness, and in some cases, death.