Celebrated Congo-based choreographer Faustin Linyekula turns The Cedar into a Kinshasa social club, combining 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.