Donald Byrd/The Group: The Minstrel Show

Fri Mar 8, 1991 - Sat Mar 9, 1991

Donald Byrd/The Group was known for boldly inventive and physically irresistible choreography. The performance featured the Texas premieres of Prodigal, Jazz Dogs and Jazz Dogs Also, and Dark Joy.

The dances of Donald Byrd/The Group were crafted with astonishing speed, rhythm and grace. Donald Byrd’s work articulated universal concerns of isolation and community, tackling issues of disease, drugs, racial and gender relations, along with abstract work.