DANCE OF ITALY - Pizzica Pizzica the Italian Tarantella from Salento

Dance of Italy called Pizzica Pizzica, it's the Italian tarantella of Salento in South of Italy, the group Zimbaria (founded by Pino Zimba - Giuseppe Mighali (Aradeo, July 1952 -- Feb 13 2008) genial musician and actor in italy.
The Pizzica Pizzica is a dance sister of the tarantella from Naples (Napoli), both coming from the Bite of the Spider (Tarantula) tradition,
Tarantella and Pizzica music and dance are very popular in Naples, Foggia, Puglia and Salento, infact in the Salento's area (Lecce) the tarantella called Pizzica Pizzica already has many important popular shows, almost each small town (paese) has a customized party (called Sagra) with slow traditional food and Pizzica Pizzica.
There are many groups and pizzica singers in Salento as Uccio Aloisi, Robba de Smuju, Enza Pagliara, Canaglia de Pascalis, Alla Bua, Nidi d'Arac, Zimbaria... all of them are main members of the Notte della Taranta Festival, is a two weeks music, food and tradition festival in several towns of Grecia Salentina and with a main day called the Concertone this year next August 28 in Melpignano Lecce. http://www.italianbusinessguide.com/

MUSIC AND DANCE OF ITALY
The music of Italy ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music, the traditional styles of the country's different regions, and a body of popular music drawn from both native and imported sources. Music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in society and in politics. Italian innovation in musical scales, harmony, notation, and theatre enabled the development of opera in the late 16th century, and much of modern European classical music, such as the symphony and concerto.

TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF ITALY (NAPOLI and SALENTO)
The most important are Neapolitan song, canzone Napoletana and the tarantella called pizzica pizzica in Salento Puglia. Besides opera, some regional music in the 19th century also became popular throughout Italy. Notable among these local traditions was the Canzone Napoletana the Neapolitan Song and the Tarantella. Although there are anonymous, documented songs from Naples from many centuries ago, the term, canzone Napoletana now generally refers to a large body of relatively recent, composed popular music—such songs as "'O sole mio", "Torna a Surriento", and "Funiculi Funicula". In the 18th century, many composers, including Alessandro Scarlatti, Leonardo Vinci, and Giovanni Paisiello, contributed to the Neapolitan tradition by using the local language for the texts of some of their comic operas.
The tarantella as traditional music of Naples, Calabria and Salento (Puglia) was developed by popular songs created by anonymous folks and are part of the Italian 19th century style.
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 first dance originated in Naples and the second in Salento la Puglia. The Neapolitan tarantella is a courtship dance performed by couples whose "rhythms, melodies, gestures and accompanying songs are quite distinct" featuring faster more cheerful music.
Its origins may further lie in "a fifteenth-century fusion between the Spanish Fandango and the Moresque 'ballo di sfessartia.'" The "magico-religious" tarantella is a solo dance performed supposedly to cure through perspiration the delirium and contortions attributed to the bite of a spider at harvest (summer) time. The dance was later applied as a supposed cure for the behavior of neurotic women.

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