Bumbershoot Day One (Photo Gallery)

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Spectrum Dance Theater performing Donald Byrd's M.I.A. (Photo: MvB)

Spectrum Dance Theater giving the world premiere of Donald Byrd's Euclidean Space (Photo: MvB)

The Bumber-crowds have arrived (Photo: MvB)

Upper 70s with a high chance of running through a fountain (Photo: MvB)

As always, the Bumbershoot grounds are entertainment in themselves (Photo: MvB)

The hyperkinetic Astronautalis, rapping about Sir Isaac Newton (Photo: MvB)

Why trust memory when you can catch it all on your iPhone? (Photo: MvB)

Little Dragon (Photo: MvB)

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (Photo: MvB)

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Bumbershoot Saturday is in full swing. The great Shabazz Palaces (5:45 p.m.) or Pickwick (6:00 p.m.) dilemma is yet to come. For now the weather is nothing short of magnificent, and Spectrum Dance Theater (remember, Bumbershoot is an arts festival) just presented a world premiere to a packed Bagley Wright theater. Snapshot audience reviews: “Wow, that was awesome!” and “Way cool!” Out at the Fountain Lawn stage, a rapper explains that science is the new thing for 2012: “It’s not black or yellow any more,” he explains. “It’s boron and photons.”