Alessandra Belloni

CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN WITH:  TARANTELLA SPIDER DANCE   A Healing Dance and Percussion Workshop  Featuring the tarantella   for Halloween. to cure the mythical Bite  of  the Tarantula!  Sunday October 29 at CMDE from 3 to 6 pm - 81 Euclide Ave, Hackensack NJ cost $ 60 at the door -  $ 50 pre -registration https://www.everbutton.com/pay/3749   presented by :INTERNATIONALLY RENOWN SINGER, PERCUSSIONIST DANCER ALESSANDRA BELLONI  Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine REMO Signature Series Artist –   Spider Dance is an intensive healing trance dance & rhythms  workshop featuring Southern Italian ritual dances used as music and dance therapy for centuries throughout the Mediterranean. Participants will learn the unique style of tambourine playing and the ancient healing trance dance of the tarantella, used to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula.   Experience the healing power of tarantella rhythms and the SPIDER DANCE !  The workshop focuses on releasing blockages of energies, breaking the imaginary "spider web" of the subconscious mind. This workshop will give people the means to fortify themselves against daily stresses. Students will become empowered 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.      * Alessandra shall begin  with sacred chants &  the rhythm Tammorriata originally from Naples. The Tammorriata is an improvisation of drumming and singing, and it is danced during the rituals held in the summer in honor of the Black Madonna .    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 size tambourines with a double row of jingles and the dance were 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, and in a trance they frantically danced for days during the Summer Solstice. Originally these where the ancient Greek rites for the God Dionysus as Puglia was part of Greece and was called Magna Grecia.

The dance movements represent an unbroken chain of inspiration from pre-Christian times to the present dating back to the Myth of Aracne, SPIDER WOMAN and the Goddess Athena.     The objective is to release blockages of emotional and sensual energies through the Pizzica dance of liberation, therefore expelling any feelings of depression and repression.       Alessandra Belloni will talk about her own experience with the dance, how she healed herself from irregular bleeding which led her to the creation of workshops and performances to help heal women from depression and sadness caused by abuse,unrequieted love and exploitation by the male dominated society.  In its modern sense, the dance aims to involve women of all ages in a collective ritual dance of liberation from the spider web of entrapment in today's society.   The session ends with a meditation utilizing a chant to the Sun, Jesce Sole, in the Lydian scale. The calming and lifting harmonies of this chant combined with the ocean drum guides students into complete relaxation. Participants emerge feeling light and joyful after this healing journey through sound and dance…     Alessandra Belloni’s links to TV appearances:

Alessandra Belloni Live Appearance on ABC-TV7 Chicago http://youtu.be/3J9ZlzKLzPw   Alessandra Belloni "Spider Sex documentary " on National Geographichttp://youtu.be/vp8dE3jJnq0   Alessandra Belloni featured on CNN Worldbeat http://youtu.be/IkOqBrpcB9Q   TARANTELLA TRANCE DANCE film trailer about Alessandra as artist and healerhttps://vimeo.com/59786628 password “ shaman