Trash Dance Analysis

Trash Dance was such an inspiring film created by Allison Orr and Andrew Garrison. While watching this film it changed how I view dance as a whole. Looking at the film a recurring question kept popping into my head, what is dance? There is already a preexisting meaning for dance, but little do people know is that it is so much more than what people give it credit for. For me, this film broke all barriers of my knowledge in a good way. In the beginning of the film, she took it upon herself to truly learn what it was like to be a trash men or women. She learned that that this job wasn’t just a job for some people, it was a career. A man retired from the business but came back because he missed working with his guys. I really enjoyed the women being as equal as or even better than the men at their job. One of the fastest garbage runners was actually a women. The workers were a bit skeptical in doing the dance, but they saw that she was for real and helped her out by becoming a performer. After Allison watched and worked alongside the trash workers, she began her work. I’m pretty sure that coordinating time and space was the hardest part. She really had to pay attention to how much space she was using and the timing of everything. She was using trucks. They didn’t use their bodies to follow each, they really had to be together
Who knew such a thing could affect people in such a big way. It was a big crowd that they had to not let people in. Not only did they use regular light to be part of the show, but she used the light on the truck. I’m curious to know if the light being on the truck effect people sight in what they were looking at. Each person did exactly what they daily jobs were but put counts and time to each and made it into a dance. Again I asked, what is dance? One person said dance is associated with everything and I totally agree with that