The project is financed by the National Science Center and carried out at the Faculty „Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Dora Stratou Dance Theatre
| Testimony of: | zz missing object |
| Source | Megas 1958, 62 (sv. Carnival Masquerades and Plays) |
| Original text | In Athens, in the old days, and in a lesser degree to-day, one came across several spontaneous popular Carnival demonstrations quite apart from the official programme of festivities. Professional mummers went round the humbler quarters of Athens dressed up as women, Moors, etc., and danced round a kind of Maypole, or a cardboard horse or camel mounted by a man in a foustanella (the national white pleated skirt). These burlesque processions were naturally followed by a crowd of noisy children, while the onlookers threw a few coins into the tambourine passed round after the performance by one of the mummers. |
| Time/occasion of occurence | carnival |
| Region of occurence | Athens - Show on map |
| Function | decorative, entertaining, ritual, symbolic, |
| Comment | gaidanaki |
The project is financed by the National Science Center and carried out at the Faculty „Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Dora Stratou Dance Theatre