La Compagnie Folklorique Fanny Thibout 
et les Tiesses di Hoye

• Costumes
• Dances
• Music

Costumes

They are those of the craftsmen of the street and of the field:

	the "botteresse", with a basket on her back;
	the "cotiresse", market gardener form the hills of Liège;
	the strawberries hawker from "Thier-à-Liège";
	the seller of soft cheese ("makêye") with the "hinon", sort of workbench that helps her selling her cheeses;
	the hawker with her skirt hitched up in order to walk easier and her hat to support what shel will sell on the market;
	the countrywomen of Wallonia, with their  "barada", a special hat, the "halète", a tied handkerchief, who come back from having worked with rakes, flails, the "harkay" and its buckets.
	You can also find the milkwoman, the miller with his cotton bonnet, the blacksmith with his leather apron, the miner,...

The costumes are also those that were worn on Sundays, as well as costumes from the XVIIIth century.

Dances

were transmitted by oral tradition; they were written down very carefully and their shape was designed on the basis of what was told by the elders in the countryside. Some of theses dances varied from village to village.

Music

from these dances was collected from old country musicians. Do not be surprised to recognize some known folk songs. This is not a fantasia from La Compagnie Folklorique Fanny Thibout or les Tiesses di Hoye, those dances airs were reproduced as they were heared.