While Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong has appeared in American Idiot (and Sting, too, has done a stint in his original musical The Last Ship on Broadway), usually the performing honours go to others. Other pop and rock writers have turned albums into live stage shows that they don't necessarily appear in, including Green Day ( American Idiot), Anaïs Mitchell (the current Tony winning hit Hadestown) and Alanis Morissette ( Jagged Little Pill, opening at the Broadhurst Theatre in November). ![]() Popstars themselves now do regular residencies on Broadway, too, with Bruce Springsteen performing a record-breaking run of 236 shows at the Walter Kerr Theatre, which seats less than 1000 people, in 20 that grossed some $147m. ![]() Where Broadway once was a prime source for the pop music of its day, pop has now long become a valuable resource for material to fuel new Broadway musicals from the spectacular mash-ups of past pop hits in Moulin Rouge! The Musical and such pop biographical musicals as Ain't Too Proud (The Temptations) and Tina (Tina Turner). Now the Scottish-born New Wave pop star, who co-founded the celebrated group Talking Heads back in 1975, has brought a vivid live touring stage version of that album, with added greatest hits, to America's theatrical utopia, namely Broadway, and it feels right at home at this time and place in both history and popular culture. Currently commissioned by the Petronio Residency Center to create upcoming UFLYMOTHERSHIP work for spring 2022, she gives thanks and blessings for life, love, breath, and the pursuit of happiness through creativity.Donald J Trump famously invoked the prospect of "American carnage" in his inauguration speech in 2017, but rock musician (and occasional theatrical composer) David Byrne's reply, in his 7th solo studio album, was to focus on more positive emotions, with the title American Utopia. She continues to build her pedagogy as a teaching artist occasionally at NYU Tisch and as a B.O.L.D Facilitator for Urban Bush Women. Lang, Marjani Forte'-Saunders (7NMS), ASÉ Dance Theater Collective, Nathan Trice/ Rituals Performance Project "StrangeLove", Jim Findlay's "Electric Lucifer" workshop & Philadelphia Operas’ We Shall Not be Moved directed by Bill T. Other solo/collaborative choreographic works have been featured at Gibney Dance, in partnership with Stephen Petronio Residency Center, Live Ideas: Drexciya Redux - An Afrofuturist Cabaret at NYLA, Movement Researches’ Spring Festival, Czech Republic of NY, “ Prague Effects” Residency, Dancespace "Collective Terrains " platform, Spelman Colleges' "Toni Cade Bambara Scholar- Activism Conference, Harlem Stage E-Moves 2019, Hi-ARTS: Critical Breaks Residency, BRICLab, Dance Mission Theaters' D.I.R.T Festival 2021 & Park Armorys' 100 Women/ 100 Years and Lincoln Center's Restart Stages. Former touring company member of Urban Bush Women, Tendayi is also longtime collaborator with partner Greg Purnell under the alias UFLYMOTHERSHIP with sonic/choreographic projects Heroiné, Incog-negro, U.F.O: Unidentified Fly Objects, U.F.O: Stardust Melanin, & U.F.O "The Mixtape". Recently, Tendayi performed as a background vocalist/dancer & original cast member of Specal Tony Award Winning David Byrne's America Utopia on Broadway as well as its World Tour since 2018 and HBO Film adaptation directed by Spike Lee. International dancer, choreographer, singer, & songwriter, Tendayi Kuumba is a graduate of North Atlanta High School of Performing Arts and Spelman College. David Byrne has been honored with an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy awards, along with Obie, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Theatre World awards for his work in the New York theater. Since 2010, David Byrne has spoken several times at TED Talks conferences. ![]() An advocate for cycling, Byrne designed a series of custom bike racks that were placed in different locations in New York City in 2008. In 2005, Playing the Building, an installation that turned buildings into playable musical instruments by connecting the structures electronically to a pipe organ debuted in Stockholm, followed by runs in London and New York. For theater and dance, Byrne has written music for Twyla Tharp’s Catherine Wheel (1981) In Spite of Wishing and Wanting, for Wim Vandekevbus’s Belgian dance company Ultima Vez Robert Wilson’s Civil Wars – The Knee Plays and The Forest (1988) and, Here Lies Love (2015) and Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (2017). Since leaving the Talking Heads, the band he co-founded in the 1970s, Byrne has released nine solo studio albums, most recently American Utopia (2018). Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, he grew up in North America and was educated at art schools in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. David Byrne is a singer, songwriter, musician, film director and producer, author, lecturer, photographer and visual artist.
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