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Shows a new approach to understanding the behaviour of crowds, focusing on the tensions and conflicts between the crowds and the authorities at the Notting Hill carnival. Also looks at how crowd violence is...
Every winter ancient rituals are performed throughout Europe to secure prosperity and good harvests. These rituals are at the heart of what is known today as the Carnival celebrations. Led by anthropologist...
A kaleidoscopic presentation challenging traditional ways of looking at black cultures. Includes images from 1976 to 1984, from West London to Northern Ireland, covering carnival, colonialism, surveillance,...
In Cirque Du Soleil’s 17th circus spectacular, a clown imagines his own funeral as a lavish and astonishing carnival parade. From gravity-defying acrobatics to moments of surprising intimacy and mystery,...
Recreates background for the street carnivals of the time of Lorenzo de Medici. A group of strolling players presents songs, sketches and a display of tumbling.
Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, who has also written for the theatre and cinema and is the author of a best-selling novel. Here he talks and sings about carnival in Rio, football, and his novel.
Boston’s magnificent buildings bear testimony to the wealth that was generated in medieval days when the port of Boston was, for a short time, more important that the port of London. The famous Boston...
Discusses paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder: ‘The Gloomy Day’, ‘The Return of the Herd’, ‘The Hunters in the Snow’, ‘The Battle between Carnival and Lent’, ‘The Peasant Wedding’ and...
During the 17th century the theatre was predominately a male domain from which women were excluded, especially as playwrights. For Aphra Behn, the first woman playwright, to enter the fiercely competitive...
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