Music | Dance
Contemporary Color
BAM and Barclays Center present
Contemporary Color
Live performances by:
David Byrne
Nelly Furtado
How To Dress Well
Devonté Hynes
Zola Jesus
Lucius
Nico Muhly + Ira Glass
Money Mark + Ad-Rock
St. Vincent
tUnE-yArDs
Ten of the country’s elite color guard teams—the flag-flipping, sequin-studded crème de la crème of the “sport of the arts”—sync steps with musical luminaries at Barclays Center for a bacchanalia of beats and sabre-spinning orchestrated by David Byrne. Each artist—Nelly Furtado, How To Dress Well, Devonté Hynes, Zola Jesus, Nico Muhly + Ira Glass, St. Vincent, tUnE-yArDs, Lucius, Ad-Rock + Money Mark, and Byrne himself—collaborates with an individual ensemble to provide a live original soundtrack to dazzling lockstep routines, bathed in the big-venue limelight.
Conceived by David Byrne
Commissioned by BAM and Luminato Festival (Toronto)
With support from WGI Sport of the Arts
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David Byrne is a founding member of the Talking Heads.
Nelly Furtado is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
Tom Krell (aka How to Dress Well) is an experimental pop singer-songwriter.
Devonté Hynes is a producer and songwriter and records music under the moniker Blood Orange.
Annie Clark, known by her stage name St. Vincent, is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter.
Nico Muhly is a composer who has collaborated with musicians across a variety of fields.
Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of This American Life.
Merrill Garbus has performed as tUnE-yArDs since 2009.
This Brooklyn-based indie-pop band evokes classic girl-group pop and iconic rock ’n’ roll.
Beastie Boy sideman Money Mark and member Ad-Rock reunite.
Zola Jesus an American singer-songwriter and producer.