Some of them, it is passed father to son; there are multiple generations of people who have worked with Solid Waste for many years and are still in the department. A lot of them started as truck drivers driving big trucks, and this is a more stable and regular job than working for, say, a beer company or a milk company.
It's regular hours for folks who drive wheelers. I was curious about what does it carry for them to do this job, like is there some stigma on them? They'll usually say they're not trashmen.
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That's a job, but it's not who they are. They approach their job with pride, and they want to do it safely. Did you have to persuade people that you weren't going to be making fun of them by putting them in a dance? I think it helped that I had already done that project with the Fire Department and had a video, and I could show it. But honestly, getting people to buy in and choose to participate has not been as hard as with other projects. They get that what they do is not an esteemed job, and they saw, "This would be a really cool way to show people what we do. It's a job that is very choreographed.
They're having to judge space and time, and they're having to coordinate with each other and the machinery, and they have to rehearse and practice and become skilled at it, too. My job, by watching them for a year, was choosing carefully the elements of the choreography that reflect who they are and reflect the job.
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There are certain parts of the show that I saw immediately in my mind and that worked the first time we practiced it. It's, like, working with the machinery or somebody driving a truck and somebody running alongside or working a crane.
Don Anderson, who's a supervisor, when he heard I needed someone to do a solo with a grappler — it has a claw on it, and it can pick up a refrigerator, it can pick up a car, and it puts it in the back of a trailer — he said, "That's what I want to do. Calculating the energy and the timing in the way he uses that crane. And when he got down, he was beaming. And I had videoed him on my iPhone, and he said: This is so great. The Trash Project will be presented Saturday, Sept.
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