 Faustin Linyekula / Studios Kabako
From 23 to 25 june 2011
1 news bulletin with: Josh Neufeld, Compagnie Motus, Faustin Linyekula, Eric Chauvier, Joris Mathieu, Benjamen Walker and Dany Laferrière 3 times a night: 8pm, 8.15pm, 8.30pm With bodies and raw energy, music and sounds and words, Faustin Linyekula creates performances that reflect a reality where we often have access to world news only when crises prevail.
This artist from the Congo has built a life between France and Africa, and offers a strikingly sharp and simple mix of performances, dance and visual theatre. He now tours in major international festivals, while continuing to incessantly question History and the relations between politics and society. PRESS REVIEWS... " When they were young, they all dreamt of transforming African literature and to become free of the burden of négritude, the legacy from the era of decolonization, inspired by the adage written by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, the Nobel literature laureate in 1986: ‘The Tiger does not boast of his tigritude, he leaps on his prey and eats it’. An uncompromising, uncompromised and relentless project. " Fabienne Arvers, Les Inrockuptibles CAST AND CREW Dance: Faustin Linyekuela & Papy Ebotani Produced by Virginie Dupray More info on Studio Kabako / Faustin Linyekula dance compagny |
F. Linyekuela / Studios Kabako
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From 20 to 22 june 2011 Faustin Linyekula is a dancer and choreographer who lives and works in Kisangani (DR Congo) and in France. Following literary and drama studies in Kisangani, he settled in Nairobi in 1993 and founded in 1997 the first Kenyan contemporary dance company. In 2001, he felt the urge to go back to the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly called Zaire, a country torn apart by several years of deadly conflict. Faustin then set up Les Studios Kabako, a venue dedicated to dance and visual theatre, “a place to work, to look for things always and find things sometimes, where doubt exists but certainty can, some nights, emerge”. This is when his ongoing reflections start on history and a collective memory that is constantly used and abused by leaders in need of legitimacy, unable to think of the future but seasoned in the subtle art of substitution and sleight-of-hand. Since 2006, Faustin has been basing his work and his approach in the city of Kisangani, where the Studios Kabako help - through training, producing and distributing - young Congolese artists in the fields of performing arts, music and video. In August 2010, the first cornerstone of a residency centre/laboratory was laid. The centre should open in 2012. In 2007, Linyekula presented The Dialogue Series: iii. Dinozord (2006) at the Avignon Festival. In 2009, he created more more more… future, a rock-opera-ndombolo fusion that has since regularly toured in Europe, Canada and Africa. The same year, he performed for and with Raimund Hoghe in the show Sans-titre, and directed a version of Jean Racine’s Bérénice for the Comédie Française and Théâtre de Gennevilliers. Faustin Linyekula presented his first solo piece, Le Cargo, at the Centre national de la danse in April, and currently works on Flamme Kapaya’s first album, Banningsville. He will also direct the staging of the band’s concert. |
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