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Dec1

Holiday Spiritual Music

Alma Mathews House,, 275 West 11th St.,, New York, NY

  Join us for the Harlem Family Institute's Holiday Musical Thursday December 1st   Benefit for Harlem Family Institute     to celebrate the Institute's volunteers, faculty and administrators

featuring Alessandra Belloni, singer/dancer/drummer, presenting traditional southern Italian spiritual and folk music.

  Alma Mathews House, 275 West 11th St., Greenwich Village. From 6 pm to 9 pm. RSVP to sandra.fell@harlemfamilyinstitute.org    by Sunday November 27 Suggested admission: $20 Donations (tax-deductible) of $100 or more will receive a www.harlemfamilyinstitute.org (Use the How You Can Help tab.)

  Thank You

$ 20.00

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Nov19

TARANTATA - ITALIAN GYPSY & TRANCE MUSIC

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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19 AT 8:30pm tickets $ 15 MEHANATA BULGARIAN BAR 113 Ludlow (btw Irvington & Delancey)  New York, New Yooni -   ALESSANDRA BELLONI -  vocals, southern Italian tambourines, ritual dance     Wilson Montuori - electric and acoustic guitars, Giuseppe De Falco: vocals, guitar, Peter Abazia: Brazilian and Italian percussion, guest drummer:  Sergio Bellotti, from Berkelee, Boston

 

 This fiery "percussive journey" through the South of Italy 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, lullabies, love ballads, work chants and protest song.  

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Nov12

TARANTELLA DANCE WORKSHOP

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TARANTELLA: Spider Dance A Healing Dance Workshop for Women by Alessandra Belloni From the Ancient Mediterranean to today, Alessandra Belloni conducts this world renowned workshop for Women, featuring Southern Italian folk dances and rituals           November 12, 2:00-4:00 PM                                                          A Healing Dance Workshop for Women by Alessandra Belloni From the Ancient Mediterranean to today, Alessandra Belloni conducts this world renowned workshop for Women, featuring Southern Italian folk dances and rituals Center for Modern Dance Educ   84 Euclide Avenue,   Hackensack, NJ 07601 Price: $25 in advance, $30 day of; call 201-342-2989 to purchasIn this workshop we will learn healing dances that trace their roots from Southern Italy back to ancient Greece, with connections to Andalusia, North Africa, Sicily and Calabria, including TAMMORRIATA - a sensual Neapolitan dance with African influences in honor of the Earth Goddess cycle/Black Madonna - and TARANTELLA DE’ 600 – an energetic Renaissance folk dance. These movements are a part of the different dance traditions we know today as TARANTELLA!                                                                                                                                        

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