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Labor as Dance

Date

Nov 19 2025

Time

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall

Bay 4 (C105), Smith Warehouse, 114 S Buchanan Blvd, Durham, NC 27701

 

Please join us for a conversation with social choreographer, Allison Orr.  Orr will discuss her ethnographic and artistic process and show clips from her large-scale, public shows.  Her talk will be followed by a panel discussion with Lecturing Fellow Katya Wesolowski (Cultural Anthropology and Dance) and Duke students engaging Orr’s methodology in their own research with turf specialists, equipment managers, technology coordinators, and facility operators at the Wallace Wade Football Stadium.

All are welcome! Light refreshments provided.

Co-sponsored by the Forum @ FHI, Duke Service Learning, and Cultural Anthropology. Many thanks to Professor Katya Wesolowski for developing and facilitating this program.


Information about parking and entering the building, much of which can also be found here:

We apologize in advance that parking might feel challenging, and we hope this guidance might help a little. Note that the South side of the building is the one closer to Chapel Hill Street. The North side is the side closer to the railroad tracks.

  • If you have a pass to park anywhere on Duke’s campus, we request that you park in one of the gated lots on the South side of Smith Warehouse. Your use of those spaces will free visitor parking and non-gated spaces for our visitors who don’t have access to a pass.
  • If you need accessible parking, there are a few spaces adjacent to Smith Warehouse outside Bay 4 and Bay 2. Ramp access is through Bay 6.
  • The closest designated visitor parking is in the metered lot which is at the corner of Buchanan Blvd and Maxwell Ave (the designation for the road that runs along the south side of the building, connecting Buchanan Blvd with Campus Drive). These meters are active 24/7, and the rate is $2/hr. Payment is through Duke Blue Spot. There is a scannable QR code on a sign at the entrance to the lot.
  • Free visitor parking is across Buchanan Blvd. The easiest way to prepare to use one of those lots is to consult the map and locate the blue circled areas to the east and northeast of the building. (Thanks to DHRC @ FHI for compiling this info on their website.)
  • We have requested that the Bay 4 doors on the South side, which normally lock automatically at 5:30 pm, remain unlocked for our event. We hope this is the case! However, if you arrive and the Bay 4 South doors are locked, the door at Bay 6 will be open. (If you have a Duke Card, you should be able to swipe into the building at any locked door.) If you enter through Bay 6, take an immediate right and walk until you reach Bay 4. The lecture hall will be the center space to your left.

Speakers

Allison Orr

Forklift Danceworks

Allison Orr (she/her), Founder and Artistic Director of Forklift Danceworks, has honed a methodology of ethnographic choreography that engages community members as co-authors and performers in the creation of large-scale civic spectacles. Her dances, which have featured collaborators such as sanitation workers, construction crews, power line workers, and groundskeepers, showcase…...

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