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Every film production has its own stories of research and discovery. For Stephen Foster producers Beth Hager and Randy MacLowry, creating the dances Stephen Foster would have seen was a major ...

Spectrum Dance Theater will perform Donald Byrd’s Bessie Award-winning 1991 production The Minstrel Show, which takes a satirical look at the derogatory song and dance tradition of minstrelsy. All ...

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 ...

In Donald Byrd’s “The Minstrel Show Revisited,” to be performed in Seattle this week by Spectrum Dance Theater, the performers are in blackface, as you might guess, and the subject is race. The tunes ...

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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