SPECTRUM DANCE THEATER/BASS CONCERT HALL

Last night we had the good fortune to see this company perform their interpretation  of the  Terezin concentration camp inmates and the use of their performing arts to cope with their impending doom.  The dancers were magnificent in technique and emotional portrayal, the costumes added to the somber atmosphere, the music a bit obscure for our taste and the accompanying dialogue chilling.  A reminder of how little we have learned since the Holocaust.  The Q&A with the choreographer, Donald Byrd, the musicians and two principal dancers was relevant and so informative.  The dancers' reactions to the content of this piece and how it personally affected them was so real and touching.  A bleak bleak sadness in our own personal history was magnificently told by this dance company.  I love Donald Byrd.