Alessandra Belloni

Friday, June21 concert HONORING THE SEA GODDESS at 7pm Saturday, June 22 from 1 to 6pm RHYTHM IS THE CURE workshop $50.00 Contact: Bharati Carla Carla Haynes Siglam LPN, RYT Garden of Healing Yoga & Wellness Center 49 Bayard St. 2nd Floor New Brunswick, NJ 08901 T: 732-718-8381 F: 800-849-0359 www.agardenofhealing.us agardenofhealing@gmail.com Alessandra Belloni is an internationally renowned singer, dancer and percussionist and artist-in-residence at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. This workshop will give participants the means to fortify themselves against daily stresses. Students will become empow-ered through discovery of the ancient art of frame drumming and a technique of music and dance therapy that will enable them to discover the means to achieve homeostatic balance and inner relief of stress, while restoring spiritual and physical energy. Each class is designed to follow the method described in her Book/DVD Rhythm is the Cure. This enables students to continue their studies independently after the course is complete. The workshop consists of four two-hour classes. Students will begin each session with 2 hours of drumming followed by 2 hours of dance. Students will learn the variations of the basic 6/8 rhythm of the Tarantella that originated as music and dance therapy to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula. The dance movements represent an unbroken chain of inspiration from pre-Christian times to the present. They embody and culminate the different dance traditions that we know today as Flamenco, Belly Dance, and Tribal Dance. Students will also learn the Tammorriata, an elegant and sensual dance from Naples performed by couples playing castanets to the rhythm of a large drum, called the Tammorra. The Tammorriata is based upon an improvisational style of drumming and singing usually enacted during the summer rituals in honor of the ancient Earth Goddess Cybele, and now worshipped as the Black Madonna. THE PIZZICA TARANTATA - The wild 6/8 rhythm of the Pizzica, played on medium size tambourines and accompanied by dance and song, a healing trance dance for many mental-health disorders and imbalances, done mainly by women, who experienced depression known as tar-antismo. As part of a re-enactment of this healing ritual, Alessandra will lead the participants in a circle dance where they'll create "spider-like" movements on the ground, releasing stress and blockages of energy. Internationally renowned singer/percussionist Alessandra Belloni presents DAUGHTERS OF CYBELE women’s ensemble HONORING THE SEA GODDESS Featuring: Alessandra Belloni: voice, tambourines, frame drums, ocean drum, ritual dance Olimpia Avignone: African percussion, frame drums Presented to sold out audiences at the New York Open Center, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Venice, Perc Fest and Salsomaggiore, Italy. The concert is inspired by two geographically distant but thematically parallel traditions. Southern Italian and Brazilian purifica-tion rites and procession performed in the summer to honor the archetypical sea goddess. In Brazil she comes from the West Afri-can Yoruba culture and is called Yemanja , in Italy she is called the Black Madonna of the Sea (once called Aphrodite) . Internation-ally renowned singer, percussionist, dancer and REMO Artist Alessandra Belloni will be playing the ocean drum, recreating the sound of the waves of the ocean, her Yemanja drum made by Remo that combines the sound of the water with the drum, her line of Southern Italian tambourines and frame drums accompanied by a small ensemble of women percussionists, dressed in white and blue to honor the sea