Trailer quotDance with the Wodaabesquot A film by Sandrine Loncke 90 2010

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To see the author's website and publications : http://www.ethnomusicologie.fr/wodaab... • List of libraries where the film can be found (english version): https://www.worldcat.org/title/dance-... • • US distribution: • https://www.berkeleymedia.com/product... • In the heart of the Nigerien Sahel, far off the beaten asphalt track, thousands of Fulbe Wodaabe nomads gather every year for a gigantic ceremony named the geerewol. • For seven full days and nights, following the solar cycle, two lineages are opposed in a genuine ritual war, with for only weapons song and dance. • The stakes of war, the clear challenge: stealing women. • The ultimate purpose: to break in peace after having mutually expressed recognition of cultural conformity. • According to the Wodaabes, giving up these ceremonies - the only gathering where community links are woven - would entail their dissolution as an original cultural entity. • But the ecological crisis striking Sahel makes the organization of such gatherings more and more difficult. • As a result of ten years' research and friendship, the film is based on an active listening of the ritual's protagonists : fearing that the tradition may die out, they chose to tell us their experiences and their understanding of the event. • Their words gradually shed a whole new light on the ritual and sumptuous choreographic cycle that plays out before our eyes. • 'Dance with the Wodaabes' is my first documentary. It was finished in January 2010. • The film won the first prize Nanook-Jean Rouch at the 'Festival International Jean Rouch 2010' in Paris and the second prize at the 'Festival du Film de chercheur 2010'.

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