The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Donald Byrd

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Donald Byrd

10/08/2017

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2017.182

Choreographer Donald Byrd (1949 - ) founded the Donald Byrd/The Group dance company and served as the artistic director of the Spectrum Dance Theater. Byrd was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 10/08/2017, in Seattle, Washington. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 53m 43s

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Byrd, Donald, 1949-

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Choreographer Donald Byrd was born on July 21, 1949 in New London, North Carolina to Emmarine Clark and Jeter Byrd, Jr. Byrd graduated from Pinellas High School in Clearwater, Florida in 1967, and enrolled at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. In the following year, he transferred to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. In 1969, he left Tufts University and moved to New York City, where he studied at The Ailey School for two years. In 1974, he returned to Tufts University to earn ...