David Byrne had this idea to combine live musicians with color guard, the weird military tradition of dancing with flags and guns. He’s calling it Contemporary Color, and a few performances this ...
Back in 2008, the Blessed Sacrement color guard team of Cambridge, MA approached David Byrne about using some of his music in one of their routines. Generous, prolific genius that he is, Byrne ...
In April 2015, documentarian brothers Turner and Bill Ross went to Dayton, Ohio, with David Byrne to witness the Color Guard World Championships, an annual competition that finds costumed teams ...
The 1984 documentary “Stop Making Sense” remains one of the greatest concert films of all time. The Talking Heads’ music was certainly infectious, but so, too, was frontman David Byrne’s movements, ...
You’d normally be hard-pressed to find a link between color guards – those tween-to-teen troupes who do military-style dance routines involving waving flags and spinning rifles – hipster rock/EDM ...
As exhilarating and moving a concert film as you’re likely to see, “Contemporary Color” documents David Byrne’s giddy, passionate melding of hip composers and recording acts (St. Vincent, Lucius, the ...
The Color guard performance tradition is another American art form that developed in the military and morphed into halftime shows at high school and college football games. It involves dazzling ...
A stunning record of one of musical polymath David Byrne's most ambitious collaborations, pairing pop artists with high school color squad teams. Some documentaries set out to heal the world, while ...
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany -- Mission: Provide a 10-member, all-female color guard for the U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern Women's History Month 2009 Luncheon March 17 at the Kaiserslautern Community ...