Performance Information Date:  November 1 - 2, 2007 Time:  8:00 pm Place:  Cedar Cultural Center Address:  416 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis Price:  $20 ($18 Walker members) Date:  Saturday, November 3, 2007 Time:  8:00 pm to 2:00 am Place:  Cedar Cultural Center Address:  416 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis Price:  $25 ($21 Walker members); 8 pm (doors open/food & drinks available); 9 pm (show begins) View all associated media View this performance in the Walker Calendar
		Image: Faustin Linyekula/Les Studios Kabako, Festival of Lies Photo: Agathe Poupeney

“An ethereal figure with a spirit of steel . . . the Congolese choreographer is an intellectual and practical force to be reckoned with.” —The Star, South Africa

Join celebrated Congo-based choreographer Faustin Linyekula as he turns the Cedar into a Kinshasa social club and combines a spirited soukous party with an intensive performance installation. Linyekula, his five-member company, an all-star band of local Africans (featuring Yawo Attivor and Siama Matuzungi), and catering by Tam Tam’s African Restaurant come together to create an immersive, emotionally resonant piece that reimagines an age-old and surprisingly joyous combination of tradition and myth in which villagers gather to drink, dance, feast, and concoct outrageous lies about their leaders as a way to laugh about—and subvert—the violence, corruption, and poverty surrounding them.

Saturday’s marathon presentation extends past last call, combining Linyekula’s company with a diverse, global mix of leading Twin Cities performing artists for an evening featuring the Festival of Lies performance remixed and expanded to include spoken word, dance, and storytelling by powerful local forces. More food, more drinks, more art, and especially, more lies.

Copresented with the National Performance Network (NPN) and made possible in part by the NPN Community Fund. Additional support provided by the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the National Dance Project, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Performing Arts Fund—a program of Arts Midwest, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Walker Art Center’s Dance Season is sponsored by Gray Plant Mooty.

The word is In:Site/Out http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/09/15/word-insiteout/ Walker blogs, Performing Arts: News

Truth Serum, the Truth about LIES http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/09/25/truth-serum-truth-lies/ Walker blogs, Performing Arts: Walker Dance

Flickers of the the Festival http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/10/23/flickers-festival/ Walker blogs, Performing Arts: General

Congolese choreographer Faustin receives award http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/10/30/congolese-choreographer-faustin/ Walker blogs, Performing Arts: News

Faustin Linyekula: A history in rehearsal http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/10/31/faustin-linyekula-history/ Walker blogs, Performing Arts: Backstage