Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras (excerpt) (1993)
Title
Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras (excerpt) (1993)
Subject
Carnival--Louisiana
Cajuns--Louisiana
Cajuns
URL
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Description
Content description from WorldCat (https://www.worldcat.org/title/dance-for-a-chicken-the-cajun-mardi-gras/oclc/191045928):
This award-winning film brims over with stunning images of carnival play and a rich soundtrack of hot Cajun music. Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity or, in other words, 'dance for a chicken'.
Ephemera: none available.
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This award-winning film brims over with stunning images of carnival play and a rich soundtrack of hot Cajun music. Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity or, in other words, 'dance for a chicken'.
Ephemera: none available.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Pat Mire (writer, director and producer)
Publisher
Attakapas Productions
Date
1993
Citation
“Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras (excerpt) (1993),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/703.