I had this vision of how exciting that would be – both for me and for an audience’.
I imagined a live show…I pictured a lot of drummers, a kind of drum line/samba school/second line – that would create the rhythms. ‘As I was recording the songs for my American Utopia album, it occurred to me that they would be exciting to play live – and I realized that a lot of my older material would fit right in. 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.David Byrne's American Utopia : About The Show
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.
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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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