Alessandra Belloni

Rhythm is the Cure A Healing Dance and Percussion Workshop Sunday, April 12 from 3 to 5:30pm cost $55 at Movement Journeys, 289 Stuyvesant Avenue, Lyndhurst NJ Rhythm is the Cure workshop is based on the roots of an ancient form of music and dance therapy known as Tarantella, a precursor of modern day music therapy. It is an intensive healing workshop featuring Southern Italian ritual dances used for centuries throughout the Mediterranean. The dance movements represent an unbroken chain of inspiration from pre-Christian times to the present. Participants will: - Learn the unique style of tambourine playing featuring the 6/8 rhythm - Learn the ancient healing trance dance of the Tarantella and Tammorriata - Gain the healing and stress-relieving effect of these rhythms and dances - Release blockages of emotional and sensual energies, expelling feelings of depression and repression - Gain homeostatic balance and inner relief of stress, while restoring spiritual and physical energy Participants emerge feeling light and joyful after this healing journey through sound and dance. They are encouraged to wear white and red traditional ceremonial colors, and women to wear skirts. 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, and of special brushes for tambourine with Regal Tip. 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. REGISTER ONLINE coming soon DIRECTIONS http://www.movementjourneys.com/contact-us FOR MORE INFORMATION http://www.alessandrabelloni.com/ ABelloni@aol.com