Donald Byrd @dansbyrd
Artistic Director of Spectrum Dance Theater; choreographer, director, cultural entrepreneur spectrumdance.org Seattle, WA Joined July 2009-
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If actors are going to be held criminally liable for trusting a prop master or AD, @sagaftra and @ActorsEquity need to immediately issue new guidelines giving actors the right to refuse handling any functioning weapon without losing a job.
Dance History Photo of the Week: Raven Wilkinson in Les Sylphides w Ballet Russe, 1957. Also danced with Dutch National. Mentor to @mistyonpointe . She met racism with grace and integrity. See @Ballet_Review Fall 2007
Talley Beatty's iconic "Mourner's Bench" (1947) was given a striking, striving, soulful performance by @TaylorStanley in his Dichotomous Being program @JacobsPillow — with thunder & driving rains adding to the vehemence. Ph Danica Paulos
BREAKING: Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, has been convicted of contempt of Congress after defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee. He faces up to two years in prison when he’s sentenced. apnews.com/article/capito…
In this piece games, he also included an incident of police brutality…probably a first in modern dance.
In this piece games, he also included an incident of police brutality…probably a first in modern dance.
A baby went to a 4th of July parade & left an orphan. The way we’re living in this country makes zero sense..
🌞 Weekend vibes, kicking up our heels with Matthew Astley and Angela Wood! Hamish Longley’s playful ‘Interlude on the Jubilee Line’ was especially created for Emerging Dancer 2022. Emerging Dancer supported by CHANEL #ENBEmerging #ballet #contemporaryballet #dance
SDC mourns the passing of Member Sir Peter Brook. In the Winter 2015 SDC Journal, he said, “the lesson of theatre is that everything that has meaning takes place in the present. And that is the only thing.” May we honor you and the work you made in the present and beyond.
Our Spring/Summer 2023 season will also include Creature by Akram Khan at @Sadlers_Wells, Tamara Rojo's Raymonda at @Teatro_Real in Madrid and Emerging Dancer 2023, back in front of a live audience at Sadler's Wells! Tickets for these performances will go on sale later this year.
Y’all. Colombia just elected its first Black vice president, Francia Márquez. She ran with Gustavo Petro, the country’s new and first left wing president.
The United States we know today was built with the labor of enslaved Black Americans. The last were not freed (officially) until 19 June 1865. Let us celebrate— and never forget.
A thread of artists photographed for the Black Arts Legacy project, in collaboration with @crosscut full stories/interviews/podcasts on blackartslegacies.crosscut.com
“America is not a mythical kingdom ruled by fickle gods or black magic. Our fate is not in the stars. It is in ourselves. It is within our power to stop schools from becoming killing fields. We have simply decided not to do it,” @maureendowd says. nytimes.com/2022/05/28/opi…
Honored and thrilled to have the trust of the Morrison estate. @shannonmhouston is going to do it justice. #sula @HBO
Honored and thrilled to have the trust of the Morrison estate. @shannonmhouston is going to do it justice. #sula @HBO
For #AAPIHeritageMonth here's a story of Mel Wong, wonderful @MerceTrust dancer who created his own blend of performances. Pictured here in his yo-yo solo, an early example of dances of cultural identity wendyperron.com/mel-wong-1938-… ph K. Bubriski @DanceStudies
Women in their Sunday best. Marshall, Texas. 1899, by Gabriele Münter, known as a German expressionist painter, she was also a photographer who spent a period of time in the U.S. #WomensArt
I’ll bet this husband really wanted to kick some ass last week after the disrespectful comments and insults directed at his wife last week. Instead of reacting, he comforted his wife and assured her that everything is okay. #Oscars #ToxicMasculinity #WillSmith

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