At the end of Spectrum Dance Theater's "The Male Voice" last weekend, one of the audience members asked the question begged by the program: How exactly were the works "associated with testosterone"? What was "male" about these "voices"? Spectrum director Donald Byrd turned the question back on the questioner.... [READ MORE (Link to Seattle Weekly Article)]

If you think of a phrase of movement as a figure of physical speech, then what does Donald Byrd's new dance say? I recently had the great luck to sit in on a rehearsal of Spectrum Dance Theater's production of Byrd's "Interrupted Narratives/War," which will have its world premiere at the Moore Theatre Friday and Saturday night... [READ MORE (PDF doc. 56KB)]

Saturday I was able to catch Spectrum Dance Theater’s American Stories. A program that contained Artistic Director Donald Byrd’s Living in East Podunk and Interrupted Narratives/WAR. The unifying theme being the examination of facets of contemporary American life...[READ MORE (PDF doc. 56KB)]