Spectrum Dance Theater’s Powerful “H.R. 3244” Examines The Modern Slavery of Human Trafficking Click Here to read on Seattle Gay Scene If you think Spectrum is just some dance thing, I hope you’ll rid yourself of that notion. Tonight (4/11) — which is your last...
Using video clips, some apparently body-cams on police officers, excellent music by Jaimeo Brown and Julius Eastman, and the full expressive talents of the Spectrum company over and over again we feel the humanity of these murdered fellow humans through dance. Click...
“Shot” is masterfully staged and paced, and the Spectrum dancers’ usual all-out prowess is on ample display. Finely executed though it is, there’s not much that’s surprising here if you’ve kept track at all of the news the last few years. That lack of surprise may say...
“SHOT” “explores not only the systemic and institutionalized slaughter of blacks by police, but also their outward intensification and militarization where a ‘shoot first, think later’ method to policing is fortified, and at times, praised by a force that is entrusted...
At a moment in time when so many fear a possible rolling back of progress on social issues, Donald Byrd, nationally respected choreographer and artistic director of Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater, has taken up the idea of resistance. Click here to read...