Internationally renowned Singer, Dancer Percussionist ALESSANDRA BELLONI In TARANTATA – South Italian ritual folk music, healing chants & trance dances Sunday November 12 - 4:00pm at CORAZON ART 125 South Topanga Canjon Blvd (310) 795-1373 tickets $ 20.00 https://www.facebook.com/corazonperformingarts/
also feauturing: Greg Dormani on guitar & Mandolin dancer Andrea Nehesi
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, and the trance dance know as PIZZICA TARANTATA or the Spider Dance. Alessandra Belloni's original compositions honoring Yemanja and Oxun, Goddesses of Love and Waters, Xango, of the Afro- Brazilian Yoruba tradition