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Donald Byrd: The America That Is To Be Opening Reception
October 11, 2019 @ 7:30 pm
Please join us to celebrate the opening of the Frye Art Museum’s latest exhibition:
Donald Byrd: The America That Is To Be
Enjoy a preview of the exhibitions and reception with cash bar.
October 12, 2019 – January 26, 2020
Weekly Performance Schedule
Spectrum Dance Theater company artists will perform choreography by Donald Byrd throughout the duration of the exhibition at the following times:
Tuesdays/Fridays 12pm
Saturdays/Sundays 3pm
This exhibition surveys the trajectory of Byrd’s career, from his early dances in a punk-inspired aesthetic made while in residence at California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles, through works with his own company, Donald Byrd/The Group, in New York during the 1980s and 1990s, to his arrival in 2002 in Seattle, where his commitment to social justice has found full expression in a remarkable array of dance theater works.