The Marius-Barbeau Documentation Center is happy to be partners with The Canadian Museum of Civilisation in its project « Marius Barbeau, a Canadian hero and his period 1883-1969 ».
We wish to acknowledge the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage through Canadian Culture Online.
On that site, Heritage Canada displays a sampling from a wealth of documents relating the history of the two dance companies.
(photographie : SRT Photo, André Amyot) … We are not from here. We are wanderers and no one will ever change our way of life. » (From the film Latcho Drom)
(photographie : SRT Photo, André Amyot) Homeless like them, we found ourselves somewhere in the Balkans…
(photographie : SRT Photo, André Amyot) … In Hungary, then Romania;
(photographie : SRT Photo, André Amyot) and further East : in Moldavia, Russia and Ukraine.
(photographie : SRT Photo, André Amyot) Without hearth or home …birds of passage, we the gypsies « (Sartre).
(photographie : SRT Photo, André Amyot) « On balmy nights, we roam roads that take us to unknown places…
(photographie : SRT Photo, André Amyot) Choreography : Theodor Vasilescu Scene inspired from the « Roms », better known as gypsies.
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