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‘It’s Like I’m Dancing With Death’: Inside One of the World’s Most Dangerous Games
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‘It’s Like I’m Dancing With Death’: Inside One of the World’s Most Dangerous Games
Copyright Carlos Parra Rios 2024
Date of Work Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Updated Mar 2024
‘It’s Like Dancing with Death’: Inside One of the World’s Most Dangerous Games. Colombia’s corralejas bull fights are a bloody free-for-all where only the humans die.

In the coliseum, the bull stares down hundreds of men. He’s a half-ton black matador with a skull-white head and curved horns. Bred for fighting. He carries violence in his DNA. The bull watches the crowd of men in the ring, alert for any challenge. The crowd is attentive to the slightest movement of the animal. When the hundreds of men flee, they move in tandem, like a school of fish dodging a shark.


Text By Toby Muse
Photographs by Carlos Parra Rios
Storie Published in Rolling Stone
'It's Like I'm Dancing With Death': Inside One of the World's Most Dangerous Games
Colombia’s corralejas bull fights are a bloody free-for-all where only the humans die 
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