Faustin Linyekula/Studios Kabako: more more more… future
Co-presented with French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line Festival.
Choreographer and director Faustin Linyekula creates intricate, powerful performance works that reflect the sociopolitical and cultural history and present struggles of his native Democratic Republic of Congo.
In this raucous and provocative performance, Faustin Linyekula’s choreography embraces creative destruction and stakes a claim to his own no-future society. Three dancers, including himself, twist and rage to the seething poems of Antoine Vumilia Muhindo, a political prisoner and childhood friend. The poems are set in song by music director Flamme Kapaya, an exceptional guitarist and major star in the Congo. Driven by the rhythms of Kapaya and his five-member on-stage band, the piece is a fierce celebration of hope in the face of despair.
Crossing the Line, the annual fall festival of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), is conceived as a platform to present vibrant new works by a diverse range of significant transdisciplinary artists working on both sides of the Atlantic.
The 2011 U.S. Tour of more more more…future is produced by MAPP International Productions in partnership with The Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium.
Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts. NDP is supported by lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust. Generous support for the U.S. tour of more more more… future has been provided by Institut Français.
Dance programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Photo: Agathe Poupeney
October 12–October 15, 2011
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