Colorado Seminary

In 1970, black author and social critic James Baldwin and white anthropologist Margaret Mead, sat together and recorded a conversation on what is arguably the defining subject of the American experience - race. Now over 40 years later two contemporary artistic icons Anna Deavere Smith and legendary choreographer Donald Byrd (re-imagine this monumental moment in history into a genre obliterating evening of “theater for the 21st Century." In this ground-breaking production featuring the dancers of Spectrum Dance Theater, actress Julie Briskman as Mead and Donald Byrd as Baldwin, “A Rap on Race” excavates the truths buried in the facts of this cultural artifact.