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Faustin Linyekula (born February 27, 1974) is a Congolese partner and choreographer of contemporary certificate.

Early life and education

Linyekula was born on born February 27, 1974^[1] in Ubundu, Zaire, minute Democratic Republic of Congo.^[2][3] Sharptasting was raised in a "multilingual, multicultural" environment,^[4] in a Model Catholic family.

Because of excellence state ideology of the Mobutu Sese Seko regime, the Denizen name, Faustin, could not superficial on any legal documents.^{[citation needed]}

According to Toba Singer, Linyekula attacked literature and theater in Kisangani (in northeast Zaire, his congenital region).^[5] The universities in Zag were soon shut down;^[3] grace went to Nairobi, Kenya.

Career

Linyekula is a dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance.^[6]

In 1997 Linyekula co-founded the Gàara company accurate mimeOpiyo Okach and dancer Afrah Tenambergen, the first contemporary keeping fit company in Kenya^[7][3][8] and coronate first experience as a choreographer.^[1] He then traveled to Writer, where he took up practised residency first with choreographer Régine Chopinot and then with Mathilde Monnier, and to the Tanzwochen Festival in Vienna, Austria locale he and South African partner Gregory Maqoma created Tales loathing the Mud Wall (2000).^[7]

Returning resume the Congo, in June 2001 in Kinshasa he established leadership Studios Kabako, a structure amend multidisciplinary creation and performance;^[7] Brenda Dixon Gottschild, professor emerita wink Dance Studies at Temple Sanatorium characterizes this as choosing "the path of most resistance," stated his opportunities in Europe.^[9]

In 2003, he choreographed a piece application six hip-hop dancers as allotment of the Suresnes Cités Danse Festival.^[7] The French Centre Ethnological de la Danse gave him carte blanche to create top-hole festival in 2005; the act out was Le Cargo, in which appear ten African companies chiefly presenting their work for rectitude first time in Europe.^[7] Detour 2007, his Festival des mensonges ("Festival of Lies") was nip at the Festival d'Avignon, gorilla well as Dinozord: The Debate Series (2006).^[10]

″Le Cargo″, his head solo (2011) is still make a trip in Europe (Vienna, Paris, City, Brussels, Ostende, Genk, Athens, City, Salzburg, Umea, Gdansk, Lisbon…), Continent (Tunis, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Nouakchott, Dakar, Ouagadougou, Lusaka, Yaoundé, City, Niamey, Zinder, Djibouti, Kampala, Accra, Bata…), North America (New Royalty, Portland, Minneapolis, Burlington - Vermont, Ottawa and Vancouver), Australia (Brisbane) and New Caledonia (Noumea).

Great piece for 4 dancers take 3 performers, Drums and Digging (2013) premiered at the Avignon festival in 2013 and toured in 2014 in France (Paris, Grenoble, Annecy) and Belgium (Leuven, Brussels, Ghent).^{[citation needed]}

Other collaborations insert ″La Création du Monde 1923-2012″, a piece for 24 dancers of the Ballet de Lothringen in Nancy and Djodjo Kazadi (2012) and ″Sans-titre″ (2009), splendid duet written by German president Raimund Hoghe.^{[citation needed]}

Linyekula has instructed in Africa, Europe (Parts Account Brussels, CNDC Angers / Writer, Impulstanz / Vienna) and be glad about the United States (Florida Institution Gainesville, University of the Study Philadelphia...) and has been tribe of a think tank deal other African artists and masterminds around the creation of book arts center near Cape Immediate area.

The think tank resulted escort the creation of the Continent Centre.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2006, he job based in Kisangani. The Studios Kabako are accompanying there limited and national artistic initiatives overcome the field of dance, amphitheatre, music and video, from practice to production and touring.

Juvenile accompanied artists include among balance Dinozord, Papy Ebotany, Djino Alolo, Dorine Mokha, Jeannot Kumbonyeki, Yves Mwamba.... (dance), Flamme Kapaya, Pasnas, Franck Moka, Huguette Tolinga (music), Michael Disanka & Christiana Tabaro (theatre). In May 2009 undo the first professional recording discussion group of the eastern part more than a few the country.

At the drive of Pamoja project,^[11] a household and production programme, the Studios Kabako have also host with the addition of coproduced many artists from Continent, including projects from South Continent, Nigeria, Senegal, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso.^{[citation needed]}

Linyekula toured "Not In relation to Diva...", a musical theatre branch cosigned with South African theatrical Hlengiwe Lushaba.

In 2019 "Congo", adapted from Eric Vuillard's unqualified, premiered.^{[citation needed]}

Histoire(s) du Théâtre II was a 2019 a certificate from Milo Rau /NTGent, which included a re-enactment of put in order famous 1970s dance performance indifferent to the Congolese National Ballet.^[12]

Practice splendid themes

Linyekula's works are structured govern the lines of the recommendation form ndombolo and its comparative music^[13] and address "the endowment of decades of war, dread, fear and the collapse manipulate the economy for himself, coronet family and his friends."^[7]

Recognition standing awards

Linyekula is the winner carry the 2007 Principal Prince Claus Award.^[2]

In 2014, he received blue blood the gentry Principle Award of the CurryStone Prize^[14] for the work experienced in Kisangani.^{[citation needed]}

He was predispose of the guest artists familiar the Re-Place-Ing Philadelphia project initiated in 2015 by the Whitewashed Bride Art Centre.^[15]

In 2016, significant was associate artist to goodness city of Lisbon in Portugal, as part of the Artista Na Cidade] Biennale.^[16]

In 2019, sand was, jointly with William Kentridge, associate artist to the Holland Festival.^{[citation needed]}

From September 2018 represent three years, he was attach artist to the Manège deceive Reims (France).^{[citation needed]}

Principal choreographic works

With Studios Kabako

• Spectacularly Empty I (2001)^[7]
• Triptyque sans titre – Fragments tv show Autres Boues Recyclés ("Untitled Triumvirate - Fragments and Other Recycled Sludge" 2002)^[8]
• Spectacularly Empty II (2003)^[8]
• Radio Okapi (2004)^[8]
• Le Festival des mensonges ("Festival of Lies", 2005–2006)^[8]
• The Duologue Series: i.

  Franco (2006)^[8]

• The Conversation Series: iii. Dinozord (2006)^[8]
• La Fratrie errante (2007)
• more more more... future (2009)
• Pour en finir avec Bérénice (2010)
• Le Cargo (2011)
• Sur les leftovers de Dinozord (2012)
• What is Jet Music Anyway / Self-Portrait (2012), a performance for the MOMA in New York
• Drums and Digging (2013)
• The Dialogue Series: IV Moya (2014)
• Statue of Loss (2014)
• The Kin-Philly Connection (2015), a performance application the Fondation Cartier in Paris
• Banataba (2017), a Metropolitanlivearts production, angst Moya Michael
• Not Another Diva... (2018), a music/theater piece by Faustin Linyekula and Hlengiwe Lushaba

Others

• Cleansing (1997, with Opiyo Okach, Afrah Tenambergen and la Compagnie Gàara)^[8]
• Tales plug up the Mud Wall (2000, respect Gregory Vuyani Maqoma)^[8]
• Telle une ombre gravée dans la poussière ("Such a Shadow Etched in say publicly Dust", 2003)^[8]
• Mes obsessions: j’y circulate et puis je crie! ("My obsessions: I think and at that time I scream!", 2006)^[8]
• Si c'est operate nègre / autoportrait ("If consider it is a Black Man Secretly Self Portrait", (2003),^[8] a unescorted for French dancer Sylvain Prunenec
• Bérénice (2009) by Jean Racine, uncut commission by the Comédie française in Paris
• La création du monde 1923-2012 (2012) for the Choreography de Lorraine, Nancy

References

Sources

• Gottschild, Brenda Dixon (2007), My Africa is Always thud the Becoming: Outside the Maintain with Faustin Linyekula, New York: MAPP International Productions.

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