CELEBRATE THE SPRING EQUINOX!

with the healing TRANCE DANCE AND RHYTHMS OF THE TARANTELLA & WOMEN’S BASKET DANCE of FERTILITY in an ONLINE workshop taught by award winning percussionist, singer, author, and teacher Alessandra Belloni

with dancer FRANCESCA SILVANO COMPOSER GUITARIST JOHN LA BARBERA & GYPSY JOE ON VOCALS AND ACCORDION

Featuring the PIZZICA TARANTATA ritual dance from Puglia and the Women’s basket dance FRONNI D’ALIA from Basilicata

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER EMAIL: Abelloni@aol.com or alessandrabelloni@gmail.com REGISTRATION: $50.00 You can make a payment using VENMO OR ZELLE or link: https://www.everbutton.com/pay/6349

Alessandra Belloni & John La Barbera will start with a short lecture about the tradition of the Tarantella from pre-Christian times, the Myth of Arachne, the ecstatic rites of Dionysus and the Baccaes and the true origins of the tarantella as music and dance therapy, from Puglia, used to cure a form of depression known as tarantismo.