Working in the mediums of dialogue, participation, and collaboration, Krissie Marty (she/her) makes dances with people who aren’t traditionally considered dancers. As Associate Artistic Director and Community Collaborations Director of Forklift Danceworks, she most often engages working people in dance-making for 10 years. She created and directed Way of Water: Waller Creek featuring Austin’s Watershed Protection Employees and RE Source, featuring the employees and machinery of a Goodwill recycling warehouse. She conceived and co-directed with Allison Orr the multi-year projects The Way of Water, dances exploring water and the people who steward it, My Park, My Pool, My City, dances for city pools and their people; On Campus, dances for college campus staff. Her community-based choreography has been made with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Kennedy Center, Stratford Circus (London), Adugna Dance Company (Ethiopia), and in hospitals, home health care settings and classrooms.
