PPP Fridays@2: A Conversation with Allison Orr

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Join PPP's Fridays@2 speaker series for a conversation with Allison Orr on her award-winning choreography.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with Allison Orr, the founder and artistic director of Forklift Danceworks, featuring a presentation of her work as a choreographer followed by a Q&A session. 


About Allison Orr

A graphic for PPP's Fridays@2: A Conversation with Allison Orr, featuring a photo of her choreography

From sanitation workers to firefighters, power linemen to maintenance teams, Allison Orr creates award-winning choreography with the people whose work sustains our everyday lives. Inspired by the beauty and virtuosity in the movement of labor and building on her background in anthropology and social work, 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. Challenging audiences to expand notions of dance and performer, her dances have been performed for audiences of 60 to 6,000+.

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October 10, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.
WIN 2.112

Light refreshments will be served. 

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