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Got a strong stomach? Here is the amazing documentary I shot with VICE TV. To get to this lost location in the middle of the Andes, several days of drive on unpaved crazy mountain roads above 5500 meters high and losing the entire production crew cause of the altitud sickness. We ventured to Andamarca, high up in the Peruvian Andes to experience seatless toilets, fresh-frog smoothies, hemorrhaging stomachs and a pre-Columbian dancing tradition that is as gruesome as it is old: Scissor Dancing ! Check out the Video and be ready for the Andes' Battle ! Warning... not for the faint of Heart or Stomach !!!
My mission was to find the infamous, centuries old scissor dancers: local men who stab rods into their tongues, hammer nails into their noses and dart cacti into their flesh. I love them !
This surprising tradition has pre-Columbian origins. Then with the Spanish conquistadors came the Catholic missionaries, who upon seeing the feats of the scissor dancers immediately assumed they’d made pacts with the Devil and tried to stamp out their practice. Despite this persecution the scissor dancing rituals persisted in secret, passed down through generations to the present day.
Scissor dancing is totally awesome and crazy. Two dance troupes battle it out in energetic and dangerous challenges that can go for up to 40 hours in high-altitude, in order to bring fertility to the land. Their steps are intricate and athletic and their costumes are splendid. These dancers are hardened mountain men who twirl and flip about while self-piercing body parts. This year one dancer sawed his tongue in half until a pool of blood formed just in front of me.
Because of the altitude and the failure to comply with the basic safety rules in mountains, the entire team and I endured a spectacular altitude-induced stomach hemorrhage and sickness.
Ready to see a man twirl a violin from a hole in his tongue, guys eating live worms and the dancing human cactus?
Documentaire : A la recherche des danseurs péruviens ayant passé un pacte avec le diable ! travelling man | |
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