Served - Williams College

10/03/2021

Hi friends! We at Forklift Danceworks have our next show coming up in two weeks not far from Williams College!

Forklift Danceworks: "WesWorks"—A Performance with Wesleyan University Facilities Staff will take place Oct 14-16 at Wesleyan University in Middletown.

Come join us for the 7p show and meet your fellow (dancing!) campus staff members. Much love - Allison Orr and the Forklift team. Williams Dining

05/25/2021

Hello Friends! We haven't forgotten all of the amazing folks at Williams College and Williams Dining! Check out this recent conversation with Allison Orr and your master baker Jerry D'Achille. Sending LOVE to all of you and Happy Graduation!

Master Italian cook and baker Jerry D’Achilles has been “on the job” for over 70 years.

He began baking as a boy in a small town in Italy and continued developing his trade when he arrived in New York City in 1951.

Today, Jerry works in the bake shop at Williams College, where he shared his wisom, talents, and some baked treats in Forklift Danceworks’ 2018 production of Served: Williams College.

Listen to his recent conversation with choreographer Allison Orr to hear what keeps Jerry going after all these years of baking and how working with Forklift opened his mind to new ideas.

As we celebrate our 20th year, we’re reflecting on the people we’ve danced with and the performances we’ve created together.

Meet Jerry in our On the Job portrait here! https://medium.com/on-the-job/on-the-job-jerry-dachilles-3f2d7b262480

05/18/2018

Hey everybody, if you couldn't make it to our screenings earlier this month or just can't get enough of Served (that's us!), we have video links for you!! Watch them, bookmark them, share them with your friends and fam

This is "Served Documentary" by Randal Fippinger on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

05/09/2018

Loving these selfies with the stars today!

03/15/2018

"The evening was a fascinating combination of choreographed movement, music, oral history and food."-Caroline Hamilton

Y'all, check out this review of Served from Arts+Culture Texas!

Williams Dining Services employees Ginette CaHoon, Mitch Gavazzi, Brenda Aubin, Nate Pierce, Lisa Armstrong, Tim Duncan and Debbie Shea recreated the spirit of an old dining hall in movement with careful place settings and action of organized chaos inspired by the old dishwasher as part of Forklifts...

02/07/2018

Thank you to everyone who made Served - Williams College a success! We are so grateful to everyone who participated. Stay tuned for photos and video from the performances in the next few weeks, and follow Forklift Danceworks for more post-show content.

01/17/2018

We are so excited to announce that Allison Orr has been selected as a 2018 United States Artists Fellow! Previous dance recipients have included the likes of Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Bill T. Jones, Yvonne Rainer, Camille A. Brown, and Allison's own teachers, Liz Lerman and Deborah Hay. It is an absolute honor to be recognized and given such a generous award! ❤️

We are thrilled to announce our 2018 USA Fellows! This year, we honor 45 amazing artists and collectives with an unrestricted $50,000 award acknowledging their contributions to their fields and to our cultural landscape at-large. They range in age from their 20s to their 80s, are emerging voices and long-heralded experts, and hail from 23 states and Puerto Rico. Join us in welcoming them to the USA fam! See them all at www.unitedstatesartists.org/award



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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Norman Kelley (Chicago, IL & New York, NY)
Amanda Williams (Chicago, IL)

CRAFT
Julia Galloway (Missoula, MT)
Tony Marsh (San Pedro, CA)
Martinez Studio (Sturgeon Bay, WI)
Warren Newton Seelig (Rockland, ME)
Patti Warashina (Seattle, WA)

DANCE
Oguri (Venice, CA)
Okwui Okpokwasili (Brooklyn, NY)
Allison Orr (Austin, TX)
Bill Shannon (Pittsburgh, PA)
Amara Tabor-Smith (Oakland, CA)

MEDIA
Starlee Kine (Brooklyn, NY)
Terence Nance (Brooklyn, NY)
Elaine McMillion Sheldon (Morgantown, WV)
TNEG (Baltimore, MD & Los Angeles, CA)

MUSIC
Terence Blanchard (New Orleans, LA)
Amir ElSaffar (New York, NY)
Ruthie Foster (Atlanta, GA)
Tania León (Nyack, NY)
Danilo Pérez (Quincy, MA)
Toshi Reagon (Brooklyn, NY)
Wayne Shorter (Los Angeles, CA)
Somi (New York, NY)
Tyshawn Sorey (New Haven, CT)

THEATER & PERFORMANCE
Luis Alfaro (Los Angeles, CA)
Lileana Blain-Cruz (New York, NY)
Las Nietas de Nonó (Trujillo Alto, PR)
Tarell Alvin McCraney (Miami, FL)
My Barbarian (New York, NY & Los Angeles, CA)
Mary Kathryn Nagle (Tulsa, OK)

TRADITIONAL ARTS
DY Begay (Santa Fe, NM)
Sonya Kelliher (Anchorage, AK)
Dawn Nichols Walden (Vulcan, MI)

VISUAL ART
Cassils (Los Angeles, CA)
Abigail DeVille (Bronx, NY)
Vanessa German (Pittsburgh, PA)
Pepón Osorio (Philadelphia, PA)
Ebony G. Patterson (Lexington, KY)
Dread Scott (Los Angeles, CA)

WRITING
Molly Brown (Sweet Briar, VA)
Lucas Mann (Providence, RI)
Fred Moten (New York, NY)
Susan Muaddi Darraj (Phoenix, MD)

01/13/2018

So great to talk about Served with Dance/USA! Thanks Williams College New England Foundation for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts

So excited to be speaking at

01/10/2018

On our way to dinner at Jerry’s house!

01/06/2018

01/03/2018

Can’t wait to talk to Dining Services staff about the paradox of following a recipe!

12/09/2017

What a week with the amazing Williams College Dining Services staff! I can’t wait to be back with Krissie, Clara Pinsky and the rest of our team in January. I’m grateful to the dozens of staff members who let me shadow, work with, and interview them this week. They were gracious, open and even entertaining all hours of the day and night. Here are just a few highlight pics from the week.