David Byrne Takes Imelda Marcos Down Under
After New York and London runs, Here Lies Love is slated for Sydney later this year.
Sydney-based arts writer Steve Dow starts off his David Byrne interview piece in The Saturday Paper with majesty and erudition:
Ritual fascinates and inspires David Byrne. Reading Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński’s The Emperor, a 1978 account of Haile Selassie’s iron rule in impoverished Ethiopia, he found its descriptions of servitude beautiful. They reminded him of non-naturalistic, avant-garde contemporary performance or East Asian theater, and his own ritualized gestures in pop performance.
It was another, subsequent newspaper article that put Byrne on the trail of Imelda Marcos, who he discovered was not only once a Studio 54 regular but also pals with Andy Warhol.
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