1928 Farandole dance scene (Maldone)

1928 Farandole dance scene (Maldone by J. Gremillon). The Farandole Dance (traveling musicians or dancers being connected with others) is considered a French dance of Provence (S/E France) and of Languedoc (S. France) and said to be in the early middle ages; However, the Farandole was no other than the ancient Grecian Crane or Geranos dance of the ’windings of the labyrinth’, which we owe to Theseus (Greek Mythology) which Homer wrote, and which the Phoenicians (9th century) who had imported it to Mars
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