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ITALY Alessandra Belloni: Tarantelle e Canti D'Amore. Daughter of the Drum: Alessandra Belloni.

At the 2007 December Solstice in New York City, a bit of magic was made.

Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider. Alessandra Belloni ~ Dance Of Ancient Spider. Thanks to dozens of old bargain-basement LPs and Saturday morning radio shows, the tarantella has been reduced to one of those hokey dances done by the old folks at parties. But the truth of the dance and its music is much darker and deeper. Alessandra Belloni explores the roots of "the spider dance," an erotic dance meant to cure the "affliction" of love in women. Sounds True MM 00117D.

Alessandra Belloni played from her stunning new album, "Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider," A small woman with a wild mane of black hair and an enormously powerful presence, Belloni sang and danced with a concentrated intensity that quickly transformed her surroundings. She demonstrated her articulate skill with various tambourines, and in a climactic closer, she sang, danced and played the whirling, ecstatic, trance-like music of the traditional tarantella

Start by marking Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. is a singer, percussionist, dancer, and actress who stands as one of the most important voices of traditional southern Italian music and dance today. For her mastery of musical styles - both at home and abroad - she has been acclaimed as one of the greatest living female percussionists in the world. She has performed in solo concerts and festivals across the globe. With John La Barbera, Alessandra Belloni founded I Giullari di Piazza music and theater company, and she is currently an artist in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City

Listen to music from Alessandra Belloni like Canto Di Cibele. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Alessandra Belloni. ALESSANDRA BELLONI is a singer, percussionist, dancer and actress who stands as one of the most important voices of traditional southern Italian music and dance today. She is artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Alessandra is Artistic Director and Founder of I Giullari di Piazza (the Players of the Square). Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider.

Belloni is a passionate practitioner and also a cultural preservationist, intent on extending the life and vitality of this hoary ritualistic tradition.

Born in Italy and now living and working in the US, she recorded Tarantata Dance of the Ancient Spider as a result of visiting Salento in the Puglia region. At the festival, it appears she was the only female player. What's more, she managed to play all through the night, a challenge none of the men could fulfill. From that point forward, a now reformed Alessandra Belloni became the living advocate of curing by dance. The present CD offers 16 songs in the rich culture of the Tarantella. The main instrument is the tamburello, a tambourine of Egyptian origins. Women used to play this frame drum during rituals honoring the Moon goddess. Due to the strong beats, the lyrics should be presented by a strong voice with quite some vibrato.

Alessandra Belloni, director of I Giullari di Piazza Award winning international percussionist, singer, dancer, actress . The birth of the Tarot is lost in the mists of ancient Italian history. Their symbols, however, are eternal. com or [email protected] Pizzica Tarantata from Rhythm Is The Cure Workshop, Tuscany Italy 2013. RHYTHM IS THE CURE is the Annual Healing dance and percussion Workshop by Alessandra Belloni in Tuscany, Italy. Pizzica Tarantata, Spider Dance is a healing.

ITALY Alessandra Belloni: Tarantelle e Canti D'Amore. Daughter of the Drum: Alessandra Belloni.

At the 2007 December Solstice in New York City, a bit of magic was made.

Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider. Alessandra Belloni ~ Dance Of Ancient Spider. Thanks to dozens of old bargain-basement LPs and Saturday morning radio shows, the tarantella has been reduced to one of those hokey dances done by the old folks at parties. But the truth of the dance and its music is much darker and deeper. Alessandra Belloni explores the roots of "the spider dance," an erotic dance meant to cure the "affliction" of love in women.

Belloni is a passionate practitioner and also a cultural preservationist, intent on extending the life and vitality of this hoary ritualistic tradition.

Alessandra Belloni played from her stunning new album, "Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider," A small woman with a wild mane of black hair and an enormously powerful presence, Belloni sang and danced with a concentrated intensity that quickly transformed her surroundings. She demonstrated her articulate skill with various tambourines, and in a climactic closer, she sang, danced and played the whirling, ecstatic, trance-like music of the traditional tarantella

Listen to music from Alessandra Belloni like Canto Di Cibele. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Alessandra Belloni. ALESSANDRA BELLONI is a singer, percussionist, dancer and actress who stands as one of the most important voices of traditional southern Italian music and dance today. She is artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Alessandra is Artistic Director and Founder of I Giullari di Piazza (the Players of the Square). Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider.

Born in Italy and now living and working in the US, she recorded Tarantata Dance of the Ancient Spider as a result of visiting Salento in the Puglia region. At the festival, it appears she was the only female player. What's more, she managed to play all through the night, a challenge none of the men could fulfill. From that point forward, a now reformed Alessandra Belloni became the living advocate of curing by dance. The present CD offers 16 songs in the rich culture of the Tarantella. The main instrument is the tamburello, a tambourine of Egyptian origins. Women used to play this frame drum during rituals honoring the Moon goddess. Due to the strong beats, the lyrics should be presented by a strong voice with quite some vibrato.

is a singer, percussionist, dancer, and actress who stands as one of the most important voices of traditional southern Italian music and dance today. For her mastery of musical styles - both at home and abroad - she has been acclaimed as one of the greatest living female percussionists in the world. She has performed in solo concerts and festivals across the globe. With John La Barbera, Alessandra Belloni founded I Giullari di Piazza music and theater company, and she is currently an artist in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City

Alessandra Belloni, director of I Giullari di Piazza Award winning international percussionist, singer, dancer, actress . The birth of the Tarot is lost in the mists of ancient Italian history. Their symbols, however, are eternal. com or [email protected] Pizzica Tarantata from Rhythm Is The Cure Workshop, Tuscany Italy 2013. RHYTHM IS THE CURE is the Annual Healing dance and percussion Workshop by Alessandra Belloni in Tuscany, Italy. Pizzica Tarantata, Spider Dance is a healing.

Alessandra Belloni: Tarantata Spider Dance. Photo courtesy the Artist. 1 of 3. Ms. Belloni sang in an exultant voic. he songs blazed with an age-old momentum. Extraordinary vocalist, hand-percussionist and dancer Alessandra Belloni creates a voluptuous exploration of Tarantella- the frenzied ritual dances that enact the release of built-up erotic desire- in a contemporary incarnation of the southern Italian folk form. In the traditional Pizzica Tarantata healing rite, performers suffering the effects of spider love bite are accompanied by furious percussion as they spin, stomp, writhe and otherwise work up an ecstatic lather in a bid to purge the venom from their bodies