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About Studios Kabako Writer’s Note

Founded in 2001 in Kinshasa, Democratic – Why are you called dinosaur? Republic of the Congo by Faustin Linyekula, – Because I’m the last of my kind. Studios Kabako is a space dedicated to dance and The last, like the last cold bottle of beer in a town visual theatre, providing training programmes, as on the edge of civilisation. well as supporting research, creation and touring. In 2007, the organisation moved to Kisangani, The last of my kind, like the last laugh of a dying bank embracing music, film and video. robber who takes the secrets of the safe with him to the grave. The last of my kind, like Molière’s last tirade. In the city centre, Studios Kabako’s venue Like Mozart’s Requiem, his final flare of virtuosity. includes a professional recording studio, a video The last of my kind, like the last mandarin clinging postproduction room, rehearsal spaces for music, to the tree, the crippled tree, although dance and theatre, as well as offices and storage drought has covered the tree in dust. spaces. Like the last sperm before the onset of infertility. In Kisangani, Studios Kabako has also developed Like the last king of a short dynasty, like the last a special focus on the Lubunga district exploring secret of a mystery. ways to talk to Kisangani from its most fragile part. Like the last boat on a river, the last kiss, the last dream. Since 2013 a series of surveys, workshops, debates The last love. and events have been implemented around drinking water, education and environment, while The final plea at the feet of the final stance of the a group of twelve young people from Lubunga last apprentice-dictator. have been trained in film and production. – Which tribe are you from? – From the tribe of the dogs. Faustin Linyekula – That’s stupid. – I meant to say: from the tribe of the royal dogs, the dogs that were the king’s fools. From the tribe of the poet-dogs, born with dancing legs and fiery eyes. From the tribe of the poets and ballads, the hair- raising sopranos. Those who walk nude across the square without being at all ashamed … so you can’t tell if they’re innocent or perverted. I’m from the tribe of those sentenced to death for the rest of their lives. Those, whose eyes are bound, noses plugged and faces turned away. I’m the spittoon of the Republic. Faustin Linyekula is a Congolese dancer, choreographer, theatre maker and storyteller. In Antoine Vumilia Muhindo his work he addresses the legacy of the troubled and violent history of his country. After studying literature and drama, Linyekula left Zaïre to settle in , where he co-founded the first Kenyan company for contemporary dance, Gàara, in 1997. In 2001 he returned to Zaïre, by now the Democratic Republic of Congo, to found in Kinshasa the Studios Kabako, a creation and research space for performing arts.

Linyekula regularly tours and teaches in Africa, the United States and Europe, and joined as an associate artist of the 2019 Holland Festival. He won the 2019 Tällberg / Eliasson Global Leader Prize.