INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED SINGER, PERCUSSIONIST DANCER ALESSANDRA BELLONI REMO Signature Series Artist - Presents: RHYTHM IS THE CURE -featuring TARANTELLA RHYTHMS AND DANCE HANDS-ON TAMBOURINE & FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP
Based on her book Rhythm is the Cure with Mel Bay Publications
WHEN: JULY 12th TIME: 1 PM to 4 PM Cost: $40.00 (cash only please) WHERE: REMO Recreational Music Center www.remormc.com During these series of workshops, the participants will learn: * The basic technique of holding the drum, creating the bouncing sound of the triplets. * Hand technique with the palm and the fingertips in both a basic and accented fast 6/8 rhythm. * TAMMORRIATA a 4/4 rhythm played on the large drum called the Tammorra, used to honor the Black Madonna This workshop will focus on the tarantella fast 6/8 rhythms and its many variations. Alessandra will also teach chants and songs, sung as devotion to the Black Madonna (Montevergine near Naples the Sun (Jesce Sole), Alessandra Belloni is the only woman in America (and in Italy) who uses this powerful tambourine style combined with the singing and dancing, and she's very proud to be able to bring this ancient healing women tradition back to life. She's also a REMO Artist, with her own line of signature series tambourines made by REMO. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce general audiences to a very rich tambourine and folk dance culture with an active current performance practice in Southern Italy and also to bring women back in touch with their lost tradition of drumming tradition.
RHYTHM OF SAN ROCCO - a healing trance 6/8 rhythm from Calabria done as a musical exorcism to send away fear of death by the plague from the Medieval Times The workshop will end with the authentic Tarantella or Spider Dance.- a very fast 6/8 rhythm with different accents - which originated as music & dance therapy to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula, a form of depression that afflictedmainly women.
$40 - cash only, please