Experience the healing power of tarantella rhythms and dance
Southern Italian ritual dances used as music and dance therapy for centuries throughout the Mediterranean,
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receive a Body Temple Rose Body blessings awakening beauty and nourishing the fire of Divine Feminine within our body and hearts.
featuring Alessandra Belloni
Participants will learn the unique Southern Italian style of the ancient healing trance dance of the tarantella, used to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula. The workshop focuses on releasing blockages of energies, breaking the imaginary "spider web" of the subconscious.
THE RITUAL DANCE:
Pizzica Tarantata, a very fast 6/8 rhythm from Puglia, with different accents, which originated as music therapy to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula. This wild rhythm, played mainly by women on medium-sized tambourines with a double row of jingles and the dance was performed as a musical exorcism to cure a mental disease called tarantismo, which afflicted mainly women (tarantate), who fell into a hypnotic state of mind. In a trance, they frantically danced for days during the Summer Solstice. Originally these were the ancient Greek rites for the God Dionysus as Puglia was part of Greece and was called Magna Grecia.
This workshop aims to bring women back in touch with an ancient and powerful frame drum and folk dance culture with an active current performance practice in Southern Italy and to release their sexual energy through the spider dance.
*This is an in-person workshop
Alessandra Belloni is the Artistic Director, Founder and Lead Performer of "I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA", an Italian Music, Theatre and Dance Ensemble who is Artists-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St.John the Divine in New York City. She is also the designer of a line of signature series Italian tambourines made by Remo. She is the only woman in the U.S. and in Italy who specializes in traditional Southern Italian folk dances and percussion combined with singing that she learned in Southern Italy.
An award winning tambourine virtuoso, singer, dancer and actress, Ms.Belloni was born in Rome, Italy and is committed to preserving the strong and rich traditions of her culture. Author of the book ‘HEALING JOURNEYS WITH THE BLACK MADONNA” published by Inner Traditions- Bear & Company. With foreword by best selling author Matthew Fox.
Recently knighted as Dame of Honor by the Orthodox Order of the Knights of St John.
Collaborated as consultant on the Broadway show ‘THE ROSE TATTOO’ with award winning actress Marisa Tomei in the fall 2019.