ALLISON ORR is founder and artistic director of Forklift Danceworks based in Austin, Texas and a Distinguished Fellow in the College of the Environment at Wesleyan University. LIZ LERMAN is a MacArthur Fellow and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. LIZ LERMAN is a MacArthur Fellow and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.
A spellbinding story of an artist's journey to inspiring and facilitating creativity in 'ordinary' people. If more firefighters, sanitation workers, and electrical grid professionals were involved in 'doing' art as described here, the arts--and our communities--would be far healthier. Dance Works is an extremely important contribution to the field. --Doug Borwick, author of Building Communities, Not Audiences