In a political environment where reactions to current events are often strongly divided, our deeply held convictions can blind us
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Tag: Donald Byrd
CHOP SHOP 2018
Chop Shop Festival brings national and regional artists to Bellevue.
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Shining Success at Sculptured Dance
On a warm and sunny late afternoon, Olympic Sculpture Park was packed in a way I have never seen it
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Sculptured Dance brings PNB to the Park
Seattleites love getting outside during those few summer months when the sun shines. There are outdoor concerts, festivals, movie screenings,
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Can’t Escape Racism in Spectrum’s Minstrel Show
Our society proclaims to be a progressive one, one that rises above stereotypes and prejudice. It’s not always true, of
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Not All Talk at A Rap On Race
Donald Byrd’s work is often a conversation about race, but Spectrum Dance Theater’s A Rap On Race makes the notion
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Spectrum and the Africanist Aesthetic
Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater, the self-billed “foremost contemporary modern dance organization in the Pacific Northwest,” presented DANCE, DANCE, DANCE
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Black Arts Take the Stage at Showing Out
Velocity Dance Center’s Founders Theater was filled to the brim on Sunday, February 28, with faces of the young and
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No Longer Invisible in Rambunctious 2.0
This year’s Black History Month has been a busy one nationwide, with conversations on the value of black lives happening
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Dancers Shine Bright in SIDF Final Program
The three-week Seattle International Dance Festival culminated Saturday, June 27, at the Moore Theatre. The program boasted work by choreographers
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