Research Catalog

Title

[Sant Feliu de Pallerols] [videorecording].

Publication

May 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brainard, Ingrid
• Brainard, Christopher. dnr

Description

1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Subject

• Gerona (Spain) > Description and travel
• Dance > Spain > Catalonia
• Processional dances

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Dance.
• Filmed dance.

Note

• Some of the hobby horse dance music is similar to the matachins or buffins dance recorded in Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesography (1589).

Event (note)

• Videotaped at a street celebration in Sant Feliu de Pallerols (municipality in La Garrotxa, in the valley of Hostoles, Spain) in May, 1996.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Christopher Brainard.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-3262

OCLC

777943367

Title

[Sant Feliu de Pallerols] [videorecording].

Imprint

May 1996.

Country of Producing Entity

Spain.

System Details

DVD.

Event

Videotaped at a street celebration in Sant Feliu de Pallerols (municipality in La Garrotxa, in the valley of Hostoles, Spain) in May, 1996.

Summary

Amateur recording of the annual pentecost street festival in Sant Feliu de Pallerols. The festival begins as a parade through the town's streets. Groups of eight cavellantes (men or children with hobby-horse puppet costumes, sometimes with swords) and two or more gigantes (tall puppets) in medieval-style garb pause periodically in the town's squares to perform dances to solo violin music. One part of the procession includes Egyptian-style costumes (perhaps referring to Moors, or the moros y cristianos dance). The camera also records uncostumed village adults dancing circle dances in the village squares. Ingrid Brainard's voice is heard briefly off camera occasionally.

Source

Gift; Christopher Brainard. NN-PD

Local Subject

Processional dances.

Added Author

Brainard, Ingrid. Associated name

Brainard, Christopher. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-3262