Name: Les Vues January -- Dance for a Chicken
Start: 2026-01-26T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2026-01-26T20:30:00-06:00
Location: 300 Fisher Rd, Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70508

The Les Vues FREE Film Series selection for January: Dance for a Chicken
Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity or, in other words, "dance for a chicken."