The grand finale of “Contemporary Color” brought out all 10 color guard teams. (Photo by Julieta Cervantes) Contemporary Color is a different creation though, more successful for bringing the vibrant ...

Oscilloscope Laboratories will release the theaters on March 1. “Contemporary Color” is a documentary about David Byrne’s interest in color guard and his performance project that led to a spectacular ...

Most people who attended “Contemporary Color” at Barclays Center in Brooklyn this weekend had probably never seen a flag-spinning color guard performance quite like this. The brainchild of Talking ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Black Watch color-guard team is one of ten elite teams performing in “Contemporary Color” this month. Photo: Herring & Herring In the high-school hierarchy of cool, there’s not much below the ...

NEW YORK -- David Byrne's curiosity has taken him down some idiosyncratic rabbit holes. He has made art with PowerPoint. He has turned a Manhattan building into an instrument. But even he admits that ...

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 ...

Color guard on the rise in high schools and out. Somerville High School color guard are two-time world champions Contemporary Color is David Byrne’s new show that combines live music and color guard ...

BAM and Barclays Center present Contemporary Color, a performance event created by music icon David Byrne, co-commissioned by BAM and Toronto's Luminato Festival, and inspired by the high school ...