As a soukous band plays and the audience noshes on couscous, red rice, and chicken, all doused with a hearty amount of spicy peanut sauce, a man sways to the music while carrying a fluorescent light to the center of the floor. We whisper to our companion for the evening, "I think it's started." Festival of Lies is the powerful Seattle debut of Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and his company Les Studios Kabako. The mainstage of On the Boards is set up as a nightclub in Kinshasa, with tables abutting......
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