Electric Guest - This Head I Hold (The Karusel Dance Group, Russia)

When a small London film crew headed to Kostroma, a district of Russia located some 400 kilometres north-east of Moscow, to continue work on a documentary they were making about ethnic dance traditions across the country, their preconceptions were soon dashed. When they arrived in the small village of Karavaeva on the outskirts of the region, they discovered that the Karusel dance troupe were similar to what their research had suggested -- packed with larger than life characters, the troupe’s performances a