This visceral, deeply upsetting #StrangeFruitMOTD features a dance/theater piece by Donald Byrd’s Seattle-based Spectrum Dance Theater currently in production at Montclair State University in NJ.

The project, “which debuted in 2019, depicts racially motivated mob violence as a relentless force. There are moments of peace and comfort in it, but the brutal mob always reassembles and continues to wreak havoc. For the long-suffering dancers at the center of ‘Strange Fruit,’ there is no escape. Since 2019, the world has, sadly, made ‘Strange Fruit’ seem even more timely.”

Learn more about this powerful performance and Byrd’s thoughts on the vital post-show talkback at https://www.njarts.net/no-escape-from-the-faceless-mob-in-donald-byrds-…