Tarantata - Tarantella Trance Dance and Brazilian Rhythms and Chants
Cathedral of St John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Friday October 18 - 8:00pm ST JAMES CHAPEL, CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE 1047 AMSTERDAM AVENUE (112Th Street) New York City, tickets: $25 For Tickets: http://www.stjohndivine.org/Belloni2013.html Visit us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/events/373168859452916/ Featuring excerpts of the musical Tarantella Spider Danceabout the myth of the spider & ecstatic rites of Dionysus. This fiery "percussive journey" through the South of Italy and crossing to Brazil will explore through songs, dance and rhythm, magic rituals, tarantellas used as music therapy to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula , healing chants and ritual drumming in honor of the Black Madonna, (TAMMORRIATA) love ballads, and the healing trance dance of the PIZZICA TARANTATA. Alessandra Belloni's original compositions honoring Yemanja and Oxun, Goddesses of Love and Waters, Xango, of the Afro- Brazilian Yoruba tradition . The dancers all dressed in white, blue and red (traditional colors in Italy & Brazil) will lead the audience in a final ritual dance, from Southern Italian 6/8 trance rhythms of the Pizzica to the Brazilian Samba and Baiao celebrating two cultures that have common roots in Africa.
$25