Donald Byrd’s take on Nirvana
The touchstone album of grunge rock, Nirvana’s 1991 “Nevermind,” provides the foundation for a dance-based show created by celebrated modern dance choreographer Donald Byrd that gets its world premiere this weekend in Seattle.
Byrd said the show will not be a strictly biographical work about Nirvana singer and songwriter Kurt Cobain, but it will have two dancers who represent Cobain and his widow, Courtney Love.
He said the back story of Cobain’s suicide and his tumultuous relationship with Love touched him because “it’s like sometimes when you’re watching ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ you think, if they had just waited.... Even if it seems unbearable, it’s going to change.”
Performances by the Seattle Spectrum Dance Theatre, where Byrd is artistic director, will take place Saturday and Sunday at Moore Theater.
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