Dancing with Trash

“The NVIV (Next Vista Inspiring Video) series of posts are written by Rushton Hurley and designed to provide students and teachers with fascinating discussion prompts.”

In Dancing with Trash, Rushton features a choreographer, Alison Orr who wants to make a movie involving dance and garbage trucks.

Rushton gives the following prompts to accompany this video:

“What different reactions do you have watching this trailer? Do you think of honoring those rarely honored? Do racial themes come to mind? Do you see enough to believe that something beautiful happens in this story? If so, what?”

I found it interesting that this choreographer was thinking outside of the box. I never imagined something like this being done. It had me wondering what other occupations are quietly left in the background. How about the road construction crews? What about the train repairmen? Or plane maintenance crews? How about the people who load luggage on planes? It would be fun to have students brainstorm other occupations that could be featured.

Please check out the video and think of other prompts you might come up with. Please share.