Ballerina di Pizzica Salentina - "Uccio Aloisi Gruppu"

Notte della Taranta Salento - Ballerina Lecce (Dicono che si chiama Serena e l'hanno vista per Roma) ballerina di Pizzica Salentina accompagnata da UCCIO ALOISI il Compay Segundo Italiano, durante la Notte della Taranta di Lecce nel Salento

NOTTE DELLA TARANTA - TARANTISM and DANCE
TARANTISM
Reportedly, victims who had collapsed or were convulsing would begin to dance with appropriate music and be revived. The music used to treat dancing mania appears to be similar to that used in the case of tarantism though little is known about either. Justus Hecker (1795-1850), describes in his work Epidemics of the Middle Ages: A convulsion infuriated the human frame....Entire communities of people would join hands, dance, leap, scream, and shake for hours....Music appeared to be the only means of combating the strange epidemic...lively, shrill tunes, played on trumpets and fifes, excited the dancers; soft, calm harmonies, graduated from fast to slow, high to low, prove efficacious for the cure, for more info about Italian music and Italy http://www.italianbusinessguide.com/
The music used against spider bites featured drums and clarinets, was matched to the pace of the victim, and is only weakly connected to its later depiction in the tarantellas of Chopin, Liszt, Rossini, and Heller. While most serious proponents speculated as to the direct physical benefits of the dancing rather than the power of the music a mid-18th century medical textbook gets the prevailing story backwards describing that tarantulas will be compelled to dance by violin music. It was thought that the Lycosa tarantula wolf spider had lent the name "tarantula" to an unrelated family of spiders having been the species associated with Taranto but since the lycosa tarantula is not inherently deadly in summer or in winter. the highly poisonous Mediterranean black widow (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus) may have been the species originally associated with Taranto's manual grain harvest
TARANTISM DANCE
The stately courtship tarantella is danced by a couple or couples, short in duration, graceful and elegant, and features characteristic music. The supposedly curative or symptomatic tarantella is danced solo by a supposed victim of a "tarantula" bite, agitated in character, may last from hours to days, and features characteristic music. The confusion appears to arrive from the fact that the spiders, condition, its sufferers ("tarantolati"), and the dances all derive their names from the city of Taranto

CONCERTI DELLA NOTTE DELLA TARANTA 2008
Il Festival itinerante La Notte della Taranta - che precede il concertone finale di Melpignano del 23 agosto - si svolgerà dal 7 al 21 agosto (con la consueta pausa la sera del 15) nelle piazze dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina (Calimera, Carpignano Salentino, Castrignano dei Greci, Corigliano d'Otranto, Cutrofiano, Martano, Martignano, Soleto, Zollino), di Alessano, Galatina, Cursi e Marina di Andrano

NOTTE DELLA TARANTA 2008 in GRECIA SALENTINA (Salentinian Greece) Is a Griko-speaking area in the peninsula of Salento in southern Italy, near the town of Lecce. It consists of nine towns and belongs to province of Lecce and the administrative area of Apulia (Puglia). Nine towns make part of it: Calimera, Martano, Castrignano dei Greci, Corigliano d'Otranto, Melpignano, Soleto, Sternatia, Zollino and Martignano. In addition to these, there are two more towns represented in the Union of the Towns of Grecìa Salentina (Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina), Carpignano Salentino and Cutrofiano, though the inhabitants of these two towns have not spoken the Greek dialect called griko in two centuries

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• ballerina
• pizzica
• salentina
• lecce
• tarantati
• tarantella
• italian
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• taranta
• 2008

[terronliuksalent]

grande salento!!!!!

purtuppo mio padre e venuto a verona e abitiamo qua, ma per 3-4 mesi all'anno vengo giu.. forza salento

[tencinage]

Uccio Aloisi un Mito!

Serena grande ballerina di Pizzica!

[mayfall2]

I was there at the festival in 2008. Lecce is amazing, and the people in the crowd were all dancing. It was definitely something amazing. If you have the opportunity you should definitely go. I'd love to be able to go again sometime in the future.

[88franz88]

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