Faustin Linyekula
Festival of Lies
Nov 14 – 17 at 8pm
Dance Theater Workshop, in association with BRIC Arts | Media | Brooklyn, brings Faustin Linyekula to New York City for the first time this fall. A dancer and choreographer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Faustin creates potent work dealing with identity and the relationship between art and society. His work, Festival of Lies, takes place amidst a festive party atmosphere in which food and drinks are served and a live band plays. Recorded speeches are heard offering promises and excuses, given by generations of world leaders. Performers compete to tell their stories as they create, destroy, and re-create labyrinthine landscapes of fluorescent lights, electrical cords, broken dolls, political flyers, and other urban detritus.
BRICstudioBRIC Arts | Media | Brooklyn
647 Fulton Street, 2nd Floor
LIMITED AVAILABILITY
TICKETS: 212.924.0077
Festival of Lies is supported, in part, by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, and MetLife Foundation. This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Judy and Steven Gluckstern through the David R. White Producers Circle.
Downloads
- Outside the Box with
Faustin Linyekula - FaustinLinyekula.pdf (2,130 k)
- by Brenda Dixon Gottschild