Dancer, choreographer, director, storyteller, Faustin Linyekula lives in Kisangani, DRC. He is the founder of the Studios Kabako (2001), a space dedicated to dance, visual theatre, music and film, providing training programmes, supporting research and creation but also developing community works in the Lubunga district. Mixing movements, texts, video, and music, Linyekula’s work, eminently political, defies all classification. Infusing poetry into daily life, it tells stories about Congo and how the troubled History of his country has dramatically affected individual journeys. Linyekula received the Principal Award of the Prince Claus Fund (2007), the first Prize of the CurryStone Foundation (2014), and the Tällberg / Eliasson Global Leadership Prize (2019). In 2016, He was Associate Artist to the city of Lisbon (2016) and to the Holland Festival (2019). He was awarded the first Soros Arts Fellowship (2017).