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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.

Sidmouth International Folk Festival

Sidmouth International Folk Festival
Sidmouth International Folk Festival

(Photo Ian Anderson)
1979 Silver Jubilee
Sidmouth I.F.F.
Dance performed: The Captain’s Dance

In Gaspé, sailors had to outdo each other in agility to win the heart of their beloved.

Sidmouth International Folk Festival
Sidmouth International Folk Festival

1974 Sidmouth International Folk Festival (England)
Dance performed: the Clog
According to some authors the gigue, in its original popular form, used to be a couple dance introduced to the English Court under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Sidmouth International Folk Festival
Sidmouth International Folk Festival

(Photo Ian Anderson)
1979 Silver Jubilee
Sidmouth I.F.F.
Dance performed : le Cotillon du Saguenay
From the Saguenay-Lac St-Jean region, the gigue steps bring a lively touch to this choreography.

Sidmouth International Folk Festival
Sidmouth International Folk Festival

( photo Bryan Smith)
1974 Sidmouth International Festival of Folk Arts, England
Dance performed : le Valse Lancier (Lancers Waltz)
The dance figures adopt different names from one quadrille to the other. In the Lanciers valsés, for instance, they are successively called tiroirs, lignes, moulinets, visites and lanciers. (A lancer was a cavalryman armed with a lance !)

Sidmouth International Folk Festival
Sidmouth International Folk Festival

( photo Bryan Smith)
1974 Sidmouth International Folk Festival
Dance performed : Castor-P’tits Chars suite(Beaver-Country Trains suite)
The Beaver Dance was popular in several localities of the Lac St-Jean region. The name comes from its foot movement, reminiscent of the swaying of a beaver’s tails.
The P’tits Chars, also from that region, reproduces with its foot rubbing moves the rhythmic sounds of a country train.