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"Sacred rites & ceremonies to cleanse the environment of evil spirits." From a show at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 2003... Rest In Peace, dear Malonga

FROM THE ORIGINAL PROGRAM NOTES

Fua Dia Congo is a company of thirty dancers and musicians dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the Congolese culture through the artistic interpretation of its daily life and rituals.

Fua Dia Congo was established in 1977 in Palo Alto, California by its Artistic Director Malonga Casquelourd. Since its inception, Fua Dia Congo, which means Congolese Heritage, has astonished audiences with its unique repertoire of more than twenty Central African dances, musical numbers and songs.

The repertoire of the Fua Dia Congo is drawn from the music and dance traditions of the people of the Central African countries of Congo, Zaire, Angola and the Central African Republic which exemplify the dynamic blending of music, song and dance in black Africa. The company's repertoire reflects the religious, social and military traditions of several culture groupings from these Central African countries.

The company has appeared in many ground-breaking performances at major venues in the U.S.A.

These include:
---seven seasons at the nationally known San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival at Herbst Theater,
---Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C.,
---a sold-out season at the world class Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival,
---several seasons at the African Cultural Festival in Oakland, California
---Harambee African Festival in Houston, Texas.


THE *FUA DIA CONGO* COMPANY CONTINUES, TO THIS DAY !!!!!!!

AS DOES *BALLET KIZINGU* AS WELL !!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, within a year of this video's 2003 performance, Malonga was killed by a wrong-way driver on a one-way street!! This happened as he was walking to his own vehicle, following a class at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland, California. In his honor, the Center was renamed in 2004...

Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
1428 Alice Street, Oakland, CA 94612

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UC Berkeley Professor CK Ladzekpo worked with Malonga ever since the 1970's. He once shared with me a remark regarding the unusual and extreme rhythmic complexity of NZOBI, especially its ambiguous sense of subdivision...

THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN POSTED AS AN AID TO FURTHER SCHOLARSHIP, AWARENESS, APPRECIATION, DOCUMENTATION, ETC