Seattle's Spectrum Dance Theater ignites audiences through the ambitious artistic agenda of Donald Byrd, whose appetite to explore the arts knows no boundaries. The enfant terrible of the New York ...

Frederick Douglass once described blackface performers as "...the filthy scum of white society, who have stolen from us a complexion, denied them by nature, in which to make money, and pander to the ...

In a time of heightened awareness of racism, Spectrum Dance presents an updated version of Donald Byrd’s lauded 1991 work “The Minstrel Show.” It’s a vivid, smart, and often funny—uncomfortably ...

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