Friday, May 18th, 2012

MOMAI Museum of Music and Instruments

Internationally renowned Singer, dancer, percussionist

Remo Artist

ALESSANDRA BELLONI PRESENTS:

TARANTATA
Southern Italian Gypsy Music & Brazilian rhythms - 8:00pm

  Featuring:

ALESSANDRA BELLONI - voice, Southern ltalian tambourines & frame drums , ritual dance,

 Greg Dormani - guitar,

John Paul Tobin, Viola,

Miranda Rondeau - voice and percussion,

Joyce Ferrer ritual dance

VIDA VIERA, & Swing Brazil - Brazilian percussion, vocal and ritual dance,

Doug Lun bass and special guest dancer DANI LUNN

 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, lullabies, love ballads, work chantsand protest song.

Alessandra Belloni's original compositions and Vida Viera's beautiful repertoire from Brazil honoring Yemanja and Oxun, Goddesses of Love and Waters, Xango, of the Afro- Brazilian Yoruba tradition.
Miranda Rondeau will open the night with her original & powerful chants and drumming .

Tambourine virtuoso/singer/dancer/actress Alessandra Belloni is renowned in her field and travels worldwide to perform group and solo concerts in theaters, universities, and international percussion festivals. Belloni began her career in her native Rome with the great actress Anna Magnani in "La Lupa," and with legendary film director Federico Fellini in "Casanova." She is Artistic Director/Leading Performer of I Giullari di Piazza, an ensemble of musicians/vocalists/dancers that specializes in authentic Southern Italian music and theater events, dating back to the 13th century. Belloni is a REMO artist and designer of her signature series of Italian tambourines; she is also author of the book & DVD "Rhythm is the Cure," published by Mel Bay. The only artist in the world who specializes in Southern Italian tambourines combined with singing and dance, Belloni was selected as one of the best percussionists in the world by DRUM! Magazine, and has been acclaimed in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, featured in Modern Drummer and Percussive . She has been invited to appear in percussion festivals in London, Brazil,

Jon Pareles of The New York Times, reviewing Alessandra, remarked that "Ms. Belloni sang in an exultant voice. The songs blazed with an age-old momentum."

 Don Hackman, writing in the Los Angeles Times, found that "Alessandra Belloni and "Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider" is a revelation, utterly fascinating."

Drum Magazine noted that "Italian-born virtuoso Alessandra Belloni is established as a unique phenomenon, not just a percussionist, but also an actress, lecturer, entertainer, and healer."

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

SICILIAN FESTIVAL

Internationally renowned Singer, Dancer Percussionist

ALESSANDRA BELLONI & I Giullari di Piazza

PRESENTS:

TARANTELLE E CANTI D’AMORE

Southern Italian folk music & Dance

With John Paul Tobin, viola

This concert features sensual mystical trance dances performed as ritual by the women of Southern Italy, haunting love songs and healing chants to the Black Madonna.

 A fiery "journey" through the South of Italy featuring magic rituals and tarantellas used as music therapy and exorcism, healing chants in honor of the Black Madonna, lullabies, and love ballads .Featuring Alessandra Belloni, vocals, percussion and ritual dance. John Paul Tobin viola and Greg Dormani Guitar.

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Center of the Heart

a one woman show  featuring voice, percussion and ritual dance, including Southern Italian tambourines, frame drums, ocean drum, Bodhran, shakers, berimbao, harmonium.

             This fiery “percussive journey” through the South of Italy will explore through songs, dance and rhythm, magic rituals, tarantellas used as music therapy and exorcism, healing chants  in honor of the Black Madonna, lullabies, love ballads, work chants and protest song.

The performance ends with the authentic Pizzzica Tarantata, the healing trance dance from Puglia used as an exorcism to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula, a mental disorder that afflicted mainly women, and which goes back to the ancient Greek rites of Dyonisus.

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

Santa Barbara Retreat

 HEALING DANCE AND PERCUSSION FROM SOUTHERN ITALY

From the Ancient Mediterranean to today, Alessandra Belloni conducts this world renowned workshop for Women…( New York Open Center, Findhorn Foundation, Scotland , Glastonbury Goddess Festival, Annual Workshop in Tuscany, Italy, and in California, Brazil, Australia, always transforming  the lives of many women…

In this workshop featuring Southern Italian folk dances and rituals we will learn chants used to invoke the healing power of the sun and moon, as well as a repertoire of therapeutic dances, accompanied by the beat of Frame drums and tambourines. Alessandra presents these unique dance movements which trace their roots from Southern Italy back to ancient Greece, with connections to Iran, Egypt and Andalusia, as well as to the traditions of the Gypsies who traveled from Rajasthan through North Africa, Morocco and Spain to Sicily and Calabria.

Students Should Expect to Learn the Following Dances:

TAMMORRIATA - This elegant and sensual dance from Naples is performed by couples playing castanets to the rhythm of the large drum, called the Tammorra. The dance movements have a strong Spanish and Middle Eastern flourish, with many recognizable movements of the Flamenco and Belly Dance traditions. These movements are set to the beat of African 4/4 rhythms. The Tammorriata is based upon an improvisational style of drumming and singing usually enacted during the summer rituals in honor of the ancient Earth Goddess Cybele, and later, the Black Madonna.

THE PIZZICA TARANTATA – This erotic and dynamic ritual dance originated as a cure for the mythical bite of the Tarantula, a condition causing a mental disease called tarantismo, which afflicted mainly women (tarantate) in Southern Italy. The wild rhythm of the Pizzica, played on medium size tambourines and accompanied by dance was performed as an exorcism ritual which produced a trance-like state beneficial for the healing of many disorders and imbalances. As part of a re-enactment of this healing ritual, Alessandra will lead the participants in a circle dance accompanied by her magic  tambourine 6/8 rhythm and singing. During the ritual each student will learn the steps of the Pizzica, which means “ bite,” building up to a culmination where each student will enter the circle and lay down upon a white sheet, surrounded by red ribbons, and emulate "Spider" like movements on the ground, releasing stress and blockages of sexual energy, as well as opening the heart and throat chakras. The dance comes to completion as each participant dances their way out of an imaginary “Spider Web.”

TARANTELLA DE’ 600 – This is a Renaissance folk dance which is done in pairs which is very popular in Italy and throughout the Mediterranean. It contains both fast, energetic steps and combined arm and leg movements which improve coordination. This invigorating dance had been called by Alessandra’s students ‘Italian Aerobics”.  

RITMO E DANZA DI SAN ROCCO or SPINNING DANCE – This dance originating in Calabria during the Middle Ages evokes the elegant and meditative movements of the Whirling Dervish ceremonies of the Sufis. This dance was used during the time of the plague to heal people and as a release from overpowering fears of death. Due to the trance-inducing movements and incessant spinning many people enter ecstatic states during this dance. The session ends with a meditation utilizing a chant to the Sun, Jesce Sole, in the Lydian scale. The calming and lilting harmonies of this chant combined with the ocean drum guides students into complete relaxation. Participants emerge feeling light and joyful after this healing journey through sound and dance…

Saturday, June 16th, 2012

Cathedral of St John the Divine

Alessandra Belloni & I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA present: 

A World Peace Celebration

'DRUMS OF ILLUMINATION'

Saturday June June 16 at 8:00pm – St James Chapel – Cathedral of St John the Divine – tickets $ 25 http://stjohndivine.org/Drums.html

Southern Italian, Afro- Brazilian, & Native American Ritual Drumming and Dance  featuring the Silverclouds Native American Singers

Link to Drums of Illumination Sample Video http://youtu.be/ekDfEYvluDw 

In "Drums of Illumination" Alessandra Belloni unites four great cultures: the powerful African, Native American, the fiery Brazilian, and the passionate Southern Italian, for a journey back in time into a world of ritual drumming, voice and trance dances.

Week end of Featured performers are:

Alessandra Belloni - artistic director, voice, percussion, ritual dance. Her instruments include Southern Italian

tambourines, frame drums, ocean drum, Bodhran, shakers

Sergio Bellotti - drum set

SilverCloud Singers - Kevin Tarrant, director, lead vocals, pow wow drum

Murielle Borst - vocals, drums

Josephine Tarrant – vocals, dance

Davi Vieira - Brazilian percussion and vocals

 Mark Mindek – stilt dancer

Francesca Silvano ritual Dance

Artistic Director Alessandra Belloni has gathered a remarkable group of percussionist/vocalists/dancers for "Drums of Illumination," noting that its purpose is "to invoke World Peace, thus showing that we are all one following the beat: the pow wow drum, the Italian tambourine, the Brazilian pandeiro or timbale, and the drum set. All will send good vibrations in to the air as a collective ritual of purification."

Outfitted with an extensive complement of exotic percussion instruments, and both Remo Artists, tambourine virtuoso Alessandra Belloni and drummer Sergio Bellotti (drum teacher at Berklee School of Music in Boston), both from Southern Italy, have enjoyed a long collaboration celebrating and exploring the rhythmic similarities between Southern Italian and other cultures by blending various percussion instruments. With music both ancient and new, Belloni and Bellotti create a bridge between ancient rituals and modern rhythms into a vibrant musical tapestry.

The evening's repertory will include: Tarantellas from Southern Italy, including the authentic Pizzica Tarantata, healing trance dance from Puglia used as an exorcism to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula

Tarantellas used as music therapy and exorcism, dating back to the ancient Greek rites of Dyonisus . Healing chants and drumming in honor of the Black Madonna

Work chants and protest songs Original songs to honor the Goddess of Love and the Sea, written by Belloni

Brazilian ritual drumming, chants and trance dancing . Native American ritual singing and drumming.

Tambourine virtuoso/singer/dancer/actress Alessandra Belloni is renowned in her field and travels worldwide to perform group and solo concerts in theaters, universities, and international percussion festivals. Belloni began her career in her native Rome with the great actress Anna Magnani in "La Lupa," and with legendary film director Federico Fellini in "Casanova." She is Artistic Director/Leading Performer of I Giullari di Piazza, an ensemble of musicians/vocalists/dancers that specializes in authentic Southern Italian music and theater events, dating back to the 13th century. Belloni is a REMO artist and designer of her signature series of Italian tambourines; she is also author of the book & DVD "Rhythm is the Cure," published by Mel Bay. The only artist in the world who specializes in Southern Italian tambourines combined with singing and dance, Belloni was selected as one of the best percussionists in the world by DRUM! Magazine, and has been acclaimed in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, featured in Modern Drummer and Percussive

She has been invited to appear in percussion festivals in London, Brazil, Poland, France, Italy, Australia, Rome, and throughout the U.S.

Don Hackman, writing in the Los Angeles Times, found that "Alessandra Belloni and "Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider" is a revelation, utterly fascinating."

Drum Magazine noted that "Italian-born virtuoso Alessandra Belloni is established as a unique phenomenon, not just a percussionist, but also an actress, lecturer, entertainer, and healer."

Jon Pareles of The New York Times, reviewing an I Giullari di Piazza show, remarked that "Ms. Belloni sang in an exultant voice. The songs blazed with an age-old momentum."

Davi Vieira, percussionist/songwriter/vocalist, and 10-year member of the off-Broadway show "Stomp." The native of Salvador-Bahia, Brazil has performed, recorded, and toured with a great variety of artists including David Byrne, Wyclef Jean and Bebel Gilberto. Vieira will play the songs and rhythms performed in Brazil as purification rites to honor the sea goddess and goddess of the river.

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Tuscany, Italia

  -To introduce the participants to the rich rhythm and dance tradition of Southern Italy known as the tarantella, an ancient form of music and dance therapy used to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula.

Rhythm is the Cure 

 

 

AUGUST 21 to AUGUST 28 2012

12 annual healing dance & percussion workshop

in a splendid Renaissance Villa in the magic hills of 

Tuscany, Italy

 

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Orval, Bois-le-Comte

A dance and percussion workshop featering the tarantella healing trance dances and drumming from the South of Italy

Rhythm is the Cure is a 4 -day intensive healing workshop featuring Southern Italian ritual dances used as music and dance therapy for centuries throughout the Mediterranean. 
The sessions also  feature the ancient chants used as an invocation to the healing energy of the sun, the Black Madonna (the ancient Earth Goddess of female energy), the moon, and the Goddess of Water and Love (Aphrodite/Yemanja/Madonna del Mare). 
the objectives are: --To introduce the participants to the rich rhythm and dance tradition of Southern Italy known as the tarantella, an ancient form of music and dance therapy used to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula.
--To learn the history of this powerful tambourine style, originally done mainly by women, which dates back to the rites of the Mother Earth Goddess Cybele, now worshiped as the Black Madonna..
--To release blockages of emotional and sensual energies through the Pizzica dance of liberation, therefore expelling any feelings of depression and repression.

In this workshop featuring Southern Italian healing dances and rituals we will learn chants used to invoke the healing power of the earth, sun and moon, as well as a repertoire of therapeutic dances, accompanied by the beat of Frame drums and tambourines. Alessandra Belloni presents these unique dance movements which trace their roots from Southern Italy back to ancient Greece, with connections to the Middle East.
Within this workshop participants shall become empowered through discovery of the ancient art of frame drumming and a technique of music and dance therapy that will enable them to discover the means to achieve homeostatic balance and inner relief of stress or negative patterns, while restoring spiritual and physical energy.

Participants take part in:
• The sensual dance and drum rhythms of the Tammoriata
an elegant and sensual dance from Naples, performed by couples playing castanets to the rhythm of the large drum, the Tammorra. It is a sacred dance in honor of the Black Madonna or the ancient Earth Goddess Cybele.

• Ritmo e Danza di San Rocco or Spinning Dance
originated in Calabria during the Middle Ages. It evokes the elegant and meditative movements of the Whirling Dervish ceremonies of the Sufis. This dance was used during the time of the plague to heal people and as a release from overpowering fears of death. Because of the trance-inducing movements and incessant spinning, many dancers enter ecstatic states.

• The healing dance and drum Rhythms of the Pizzica Tarantella
This dance is used traditionally to free women from a disease called tarantismo due to the mythical bite of the spider.
the wild rhythm of the Pizzica, are played on medium size tambourines and accompanied by dance. It was performed as a ritual to cast out negative energy by producing a trance-like state, beneficial for the healing of many disorders and imbalances. Students will learn the steps of the Pizzica, "the bite," building up to an ecstatic culmination when each student enters the circle and lays down on a white sheet, surrounded by red ribbons, emulating spider-like movements on the ground. This ritual dance releases stress and blockages of spiritual energy and opens the heart chakra in coordination with the lower chakra.

Participants are encouraged to wear white and red, and women to wear skirts.

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Mehanata

Internationally renowned Singer, dancer, percussionist

ALESSANDRA BELLONI PRESENTS:

TARANTATA

Southern Italian Gypsy Music & Brazilian rhythms

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ALESSANDRA BELLONI - vocals, southern Italian tambourines, ritual dance

Wilson Montuori - electric and acoustic guitars, Giuseppe De Falco: vocals, guitar,

Jessica Valiente: flutes, Rick Faulkner : bass , guest drummer: Sergio Bellotti.

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, lullabies, love ballads, work chants  and protest song.

Alessandra Belloni's original compositions honoring Yemanja and Oxun, Goddesses of Love and Waters, Xango, of the Afro- Brazilian Yoruba tradition

Friday, May 11th, 2012

The Dancing Gypsy

THE VOYAGE OF THE BLACK MADONNA with ALESSANDRA BELLONI:
A musical journey to the ancient sacred sites of the Great Mother Goddess

This special concert honors The Black Madonna, the Mystical Great
Mother of the Western world. Included in this exclusive salon
performance are the traditional songs,
healing chants, and drum rhythms of Southern Italy, the Near East, North Africa, Spain, France, Portugal, Brazil, and Mexico. Take a musical
journey around the world to the sacred sites of The Black Madonna, some
of which have existed since the time of The Great Mother Goddess of
antiquity. On this night, Alessandra will lead us in a cross-cultural
music and dance celebration of the healing power of the Divine Feminine. The music features excerpts from a folk opera written by Alessandra
with composer John La Barbera; the concert features a special
collaboration between Alessandra as mezzo soprano, percussionist and
ritual dancer, with Dina LeDuke as narrator and Brian LeDuke as
assistant percussionist. The ancient Mediterranean sound created in THE
VOYAGE OF THE BLACK MADONNA is combined with contemporary world music
making a bridge between primitive, traditional, and modern music. This
brings people together through the universal connection of the Great
Mother Earth Goddess, creating a spiritual and joyous celebration. Do
not miss this transformational experience!

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Fratelli La Bufala

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Cathedral of St John the Divine -St James Chapel, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue

Alessandra Bellon is very proud to announce a series of workshop at the Cathedral of St John the Divine -St James Chapel, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue - near 112 Street-

Tarantella Dance and Drumming Seminar  April 7, April 14 and April 21 May 5th  at 1pm

The all-inclusive course fee is $300 per participant.  Reservations are required and space is limited to 25  participants.  To reserve please email education@stjohndivine.org or call 212 932 7325.

Alessandra Belloni, tambourine virtuoso considered one of the world’s best percussionists, is the only woman in the United States and Italy who specializes in the southern Italian traditional tambourine technique and tarantella rhythms.  She has taught drumming and dancing for the last thirty years and is an artist in residence at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.

This seminar shall give people the means to fortify themselves against daily stresses.  Students shall become empowered through discovery of the ancient art of frame drumming and a technique of music and dance therapy that shall enable them to discover the means to achieve homeostatic balance and inner relief of stress, while restoring spiritual and physical energy.  

Each class is designed to follow the method described in Rhythm is the Cure. This enables students to continue their studies independently after the course is complete.  The course consists of four two-hour classes.  Students shall begin each session with an hour of drumming followed by an hour of dance.  Students will learn the variations of the basic 6/8 rhythm of the Tarantella that originated as music and dance therapy to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula. The dance movements represent an unbroken chain of inspiration from pre-Christian times to the present.  They embody and culminate the different dance traditions that we know today as Flamenco, Belly Dance, and Tribal Dance.  Students shall be enraptured by these exciting and healing drumming and dancing.

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Italian American Museum

Presents TARANTELLA RHYTHMS AND STEPS A Hands-On Tambourine & Frame Drum Workshop with Chanting and Dance From Alessandra Belloni's book: Rhythm is the Cure: Southern Italian Ritual Drumming Mel Bay Publications Conducted by Alessandra Belloni REMO Signature Series Artist www.alessandrabelloni.com www.youtube.com/alessandrabelloni The purpose of these workshops is to introduce general audiences to a rich tambourine and folk dance culture that is still practiced in Southern Italy today and also to bring women back in touch with their lost tradition of drumming. This second workshop will be a review of the techniques taught at the previous workshop such as the Tamorriata and will focus on the Tarantella fast 6/8 rhythms and its many variations. Alessandra will also teach chants and songs sung as devotion to the Black Madonna. During these tambourine workshops, the participants will learn: * The basic technique of holding the drum, with emphasis on arm movement, wrist and elbow technique, which requires strength to create the bouncing sound of the triplets. * Hand technique with the palm and the fingertips in both a basic and accented fast 6/8 rhythm. * Tammorriata: a 4/4 rhythm played on the large drum called the Tammorra, originally from Naples with a strong African influence in the rhythm. * Neapolitan, Sicilian, Calabrese and Pugliese style tarantellas, which involve different variations of hand technique including finger trills on the tambourine skin. * Rhythms of San Rocco: a healing trance 6/8 rhythm from Calabria performed in honor of San Rocco to free oneself from the fear of death by the plague during Medievel Times. * Pizzica Tarantata: a very fast 6/8 rhythm from Puglia, with different accents - which originated as music therapy to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula. * Tarantella alla Montemaranese: a carnival dance from Montemarano (Naples) played on the smaller tambourines with a very unusual syncopation on the 6/8. This rite of Carnival dates back to the Roman celebrations in honor of Bacchus, the god of wine. Alessandra Belloni and I Giullari Di Piazza successfully performed at The Navy Pier in Chicago and were presented by the Italian Cultural Institute. Please follow this link to view their live performance on ABC TV: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/ story?section=resources&id= 8592878 Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm Italian American Museum 155 Mulberry Street New York, NY 10013 Suggested donation of $50 PLEASE RESERVE EARLY To reserve a place for this workshop please call the Italian American Museum at (212) 965-9000 or email: ItalianAmericanMuseum@gmail.com www.ItalianAmericanMuseum.org http://www.facebook.com/pages/Italian-American-Museum/90138502227 For information on the Museum's Travel Program, please call (718) 597-1414 or email: JRusso-Winner@ItalianAmericanMuseum.org The IAM is chartered by the University of the State of New York and has a 501(c)(3) designation from the IRS.

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

long Island School of the Gifted

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

Quees Bororough public Library

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

Cathedral of St John the Divine -St James Chapel

Alessandra Bellon is very proud to announce a series of workshop at the Cathedral of St John the Divine -St James Chapel, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue - near 112 Street-

Tarantella Dance and Drumming Seminar  April 7, April 14 and April 21 May 5th  at 1pm

The all-inclusive course fee is $300 per participant.  Reservations are required and space is limited to 25  participants.  To reserve please email education@stjohndivine.org or call 212 932 7325.

Alessandra Belloni, tambourine virtuoso considered one of the world’s best percussionists, is the only woman in the United States and Italy who specializes in the southern Italian traditional tambourine technique and tarantella rhythms.  She has taught drumming and dancing for the last thirty years and is an artist in residence at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.

This seminar shall give people the means to fortify themselves against daily stresses.  Students shall become empowered through discovery of the ancient art of frame drumming and a technique of music and dance therapy that shall enable them to discover the means to achieve homeostatic balance and inner relief of stress, while restoring spiritual and physical energy.  

Each class is designed to follow the method described in Rhythm is the Cure. This enables students to continue their studies independently after the course is complete.  The course consists of four two-hour classes.  Students shall begin each session with an hour of drumming followed by an hour of dance.  Students will learn the variations of the basic 6/8 rhythm of the Tarantella that originated as music and dance therapy to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula. The dance movements represent an unbroken chain of inspiration from pre-Christian times to the present.  They embody and culminate the different dance traditions that we know today as Flamenco, Belly Dance, and Tribal Dance.  Students shall be enraptured by these exciting and healing drumming and dancing.

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

Chicago NAvy Pier Crystal Gardens

Special World festival, Bell'Italia sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, Dr Silvio Marchetti Director contact: Mary Ann at segr.iicchicago@gmail.com or Dilan Rice drice@navypier.com

Alessandra Belloni & I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA present a special music and dance cocnert,

Featuring special guest artist from Italy Gianni De Gennaro, viella, accordion, bagpipe, percussion, Steve Gorn, bansuri flutes, saxophone, clarinet, Susan Eberenz, flutes, piccolo, recorders, Wilson Montuori guitar, Francesca Silvano ritual dance, Mark Mindek, stilt dancer.

I Giullari di Piazza, New York's Southern Italian folk music/dance/theater company now in its 31th year, presents a program of ecstatic dances, musical exorcisms, and the tarantella trance dance. The program includes excerpts from the company's production “Tarantella - Spider Dance” which feature the wild erotic dance ritual (pizzica tarantata) from Southern Italy used to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula (“the bite of love”). This ancient healing trance dance and exorcism was used to cure a mental disorder called tarantismo, which afflicted mainly women, who felt stuck in the spider web of their society. The program also includes the tarantella delle streghe  from the Renaissance; the medieval danza della morte, the spinning dance to send away the fear of death performed on stilts; powerful ritual drumming and healing chants in honor of the Black Madonna; lullabies; love ballads; and original songs by Alessandra Belloni , the group's -founder and director.

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Remo Music Center

Featuring ALESSANDRA BELLONI - voice, Southern ltalian tambourines,
ritual dance, VIDA VIERA, Brazilian percussion and special guests

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, lullabies, love ballads, work chants

and protest song.  

Alessandra Belloni's original compositions honoring Yemanja and Oxun, Goddesses of Love and Waters,  Xango, of the Afro- Brazilian  Yoruba tradition 

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

The Goddess Temple of Orange County

Come celebrate the Spring Equinox and Women's History Month with Alessandra Belloni!

THE VOYAGE OF THE BLACK MADONNA, a musical journey to the ancient sacred sites of The Great Mother Earth Goddess!

With narration with AVA, with healing chants and drumming in honor of the Black Madonna from Southern Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Brazil and Mexico!

Saturday, March 10th, 2012

Mehanata Bulgarian Bar

ALESSANDRA BELLONI -  vocals, southern Italian tambourines, ritual dance 

   Wilson Montuori - electric and acoustic guitars, Giuseppe De Falco: vocals, guitar, Jessica Valiente:  flutes, Rick Faulkner :  bass guest drummer:  Sergio Bellotti.

 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, lullabies, love ballads, work chants

and protest song.  

Alessandra Belloni's original compositions honoring Yemanja and Oxun, Goddesses of Love and Waters,  Xango, of the Afro- Brazilian  Yoruba tradition    

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

Trumpets Jazz Club

Alessandra Belloni and DAUGHTERS OF CYBELE present:   HONORING THE SEA GODDESS, Presented to sold out audiences  at the New York Open Center, Cathedral of St . John the Divine, Venice , Perc Fest and Salsomaggiore Italy.    Featuring   Alessandra Belloni : voice, tambourines, frame drums, ocean drum, ritual dance Eve Sicular, drumset, dumbeck, Susan Aquila acoustic and electric violin, Jessica Valiente – Flutes, vocals, cngas, shakers, agogo, Kristine Massari - mandolin

The concert is inspired by two geographically distant but thematically parallel traditions. Southern Italian and Brazilian purification rites and procession performed in the summer o honor the archetypical sea goddess. In Brazil she comes from the West African Yoruba culture and is called Yemanja , in Italy she is called the Black Madonna of the Sea (once called Aphrodite) . Internationally renowned singer, percussionist, dancer and REMO Artist Alessandra Belloni will be playing the ocean drum, recreating the sound of the waves of the ocean , her Yemanja drum made by Remo that combines the sound of the water with the drum, her line of Southern Italian tambourines and frame drums accompanied by a small ensemble of women percussionists, dressed in white and blue to honor the sea.

They recreate rituals with songs, chanting and dancing, drumming and offerings of flowers to the images of Yemanja and the Black Madonna. The music played will include fisherman;'s songs, and love laments, from Southern Italy and Brazil, as  original songs written by Alessandra Belloni inspired by her trips to Hawaii and Brazil written in honor of Yemanja. This is unique passionate show  with great music and joyous ritual that invokes the healing power of primordial waters, was presented in Italy (Venice, Salsomaggiore Thermal resort, PERC FEST,  New York OPEN CENTER, Los Angeles Italian Culural Institute)  

New York press:  Noted Italian percussionist/singer Alessandra Belloni and her all-female trio   As the lights onstage went down, it was as if the crowd had been transported to a secret clearing somewhere in the Piemonte to witness some wonderfully obscure, mystical ritual. Alternating between high, eerie incantations and earthy folk melodies and playing a small museum’s worth of percussion instruments, they wove a sonic web not unlike another very popular vocal group, le Mystere des Voix Bulgares.

As head spell-caster, Belloni was so wrapped up in the music herself that she’d back off the microphone, eager to launch into the next song, even as she announced what it would be. In addition to melodies from various parts of Italy as well as Brazil and a couple of impressive solo turns from band members, their dancer whirled through the club, finally dragging a couple of audience members out on the floor as the drums and voices wailed high overhead. It was a performance that was as physically gripping as it was sonically captivating, even psychedelic.      

 links: www.alessandrabelloni.com or www.youtube.com/alessandrabelloni For Feature articles on Alessandra Belloni visit link to the New York Times article. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/ those-melodic-sounds-from-mysterious-spaces/?scp=1&sq=alessandra%20belloni&st=cse  the NorthJersey Bulletin and Drum Magazine

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

Studio Artemis

The subjects are Tar 600 and Pizzica and a ritual. Cost is $80.

Please wear white.

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Studio Artemis

The subjects are Tammorriate, San Rocco and Spinning dance.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

The Italian American Museum

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

Alla Fonderia delle Arti

LA FONDERIA DELLE ARTI presenta:

Alessandra Belloni – da New York –

  artista di fama internazionale, creatrice di una linea di tamburelli e tamburi a cornice prodotti dalla REMO - l’unica donna percussionista specializzata nell’uso di tamburi a cornice riportando alla loro antica origine gli strumenti femminili delle dee della Luna e della Madre Terra.

Presenta 

IL RITMO E' LA CURA 

Seminario di danza terapia e percussioni sabato 18 febbraio 

Dalle 16:00 alle 20:00 – costo $ 40 euro

Alla Fonderia delle Arti – Fonderia delle Arti via Assisi 31  - Roma

www.fonderiadellaarti.com www.alessandrabelloni.com

www.youtube.com/alessandrabelloni  

IL RITMO E’ LA CURA e' un seminario di tamburlello e danze rituali dell’Italia meridionale che si concentra sulla tarantella come danza terapeutica e purificatrice.  Fra le danze rituali dell’Italia meridionale utilizzate come musica e danza terapia, unite allo stile singolare del tamburello, particolare attenzione viene dedicata alla danza terapeutica della tarantella, nata per curare dalla mitica puntura della tarantola.

I partecipanti apprenderanno le seguenti danze e ritmi di tamburello: 

PIZZICA TARANTATA, originaria della Puglia usata per curare una condizione mentale definita Tarantismo, che colpisce principalmente le donne intrappolate nella ragnatela creata dalla società. Alessandra ha riportato questa danza alle sue antiche origini come danza sciamanica per curare soprattutto donne che soffrono di depressione, e altri problemi emotivi causati da amore non corrsiposto, forme di abuso e sfruttamneto. E’ una danza dal ritmo veloce ed energico. Parte del rituale si svolge a terra e la danza rappresenta il movimento tipico del ragno. Questa parte ha un incredibile effetto terapeutico e aiuta a combattere lo stress, il blocco di energie sessuali e permette anche di aprire i chakra del cuore e della gola in base ai movimenti fatti, come se si uscisse da una ragnatela immaginaria.

TAMMORRIATA, una danza sensuale di origini napoletane danzata in coppia, usando le nacchere durante le celebrazioni della Madonna Nera, collegata all'antico culto della Grande Madre la dea Cibele – Suonata su un grande tamburello chiamato tammorra, con un ritmo improvvisato di 4/4.

TARANTELLA ALLA MONTEMARANESE, una danza processionale in cerchio proveniente da Montemarano (Avellino) che risale alle antiche celebrazioni orgiastiche romane in onore di Bacco, dio dell'estasi e del vino. Gli studenti avranno l'oppurtunita' di usare delle maschere carnevalesche.

TARANTELLA DI SAN ROCCO – DANZA A SPIRALE - ispirata al rituale di danza transe in onore di San Rocco celebrato a Gioiosa Ionica (Calabria). I partecipanti formano una spirale ed un cerchio, e girano su stessi al finale come nelle danze dei Dervish. Il giro su se stessi ha un enorme effetto curativo. 

Alessandra inizia e termina le sessioni con antichi canti rituali e curativi usando l'ocean drum (tamburo con il suono del mare) con canti dedicati all’ energia terapeutica del Sole, della Madonna Nera (l’antica Dea della Terra), della Luna e alla Dea dell’Acqua e dell’Amore (Yemanja/Madonna del Mare).

L’effetto calmante del canto dedicato al Sole (Jesce Sole, Napoli) usando il modo lidio, unito al suono delle onde creato dal tamburo permette di raggiungere uno stato di totale rilassamento.  
I partecipanti, invocando il potere terapeutico delle acque primordiali attraverso il canto, proveranno una sensazione di grande sollievo.  Alla fine del seminario ogni partecipante scoprirà il valore personale di queste danze e canti rituali e sarà in grado di creare movimenti personali.

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Alla Fonderia delle Arti

"RITMI TRANSE DIONISIACI"

Viaggio percussivo attraverso i riti transe

del Sud Italia, Brasile e Cuba

 Venerdi 17 febbraio alle ore 21:00 Costo $ 15 euro

Alla Fonderia delle Arti – Fonderia delle Arti via Assisi 31  - Roma

www.fonderiadellearti.com o  www.alessandrabelloni.com www.youtube.com/alessandrabelloni

CONCERTO DI VOCE, PERCUSSIONI E DANZA RITUALE:

Alessandra Belloni – voce (mezzo soprano), danza rituale, tamburelli della linea REMO/Alessandra Belloni, ocean drum, bodhran, pandeiro, gaval, nacchere

Maurizio Boco - batteria

Giovanni Imparato – voce percussioni afro cubane, tamburellio

Francesca Silvano – danza rituale 

Questo concerto ha debuttato al teatro Palladium di Roma nel Febbraio 2005, con grosso successo di pubblico, dopo varie collaborazioni che Alessandra (residente a New York) ha sviluppato con vari percussionisti (Gilson Silveira, Giovanni Imparato) presentato dalla Fondazione Donne in Musica,  fondata da Patricia Chiti Adkins

RITMI TRANSE DIONISIACI

e’ un viaggio " molto focoso e percussivo" attraverso varie regioni del Sud Italia, del Brasile e Cuba che riscopre antichi riti femminili magico-religiosi, canti curativi, processionali e danze in onore della Madonna Nera,  canti di lavoro femminili, canti d'amore, tammorriate e tarantelle transe.

Il concerto comprende anche una fusione di musica acustica ed elettronica, con un dance beat molto particolare e dei tracks creati a New York con la direzione musicale di un eccezionale violinista, Joe Deninzon, insieme ad Alessandra Belloni che hanno creato suoni molto particolari usando anche il violino elettrico e drum beats, accentuati e rielaboai dal grande batteristsa Maurizio Boco. 

Questi tracks vengodo dal msuical TARANTELLA SPDIER DANCE, scritto da Alessandra Belloni e presentato sia a New York che in Italia, dedicato al mito di aracne ed il culto di Dionisio, le Baccanti ed i riti orgiastici.

Parte del concerto sono anche brani originali scritti da Alessandra Belloni in seguito ai suoi numerosi viaggi in Brasile, canti in onore della dea del mare e dell’amore Yemanja, e OXUN, dea dei fiumi, della bellezza e dell’eros.

Tutti gli arrangiamenti sono stati elaborati in collaborazione con gli altri musicisti appositamente per voci e percussioni raggiungendo una perfezione ritmica ed un’esplosione di passione ed erotismo espressi attraverso i canti e la danza. Il concerto termina con la danza transe PIZZICA TARANTATA, coinvolgendo il pubblico in un rito collettivo.

Il concerto e’ dedicato al potere curativo del ritmo, dei canti e delle danze rituali soprattutto Tarantella, Tammorriata, Pizzica ed ai riti afro-cubani e brasiliani.

Nelle sue ricerche Alessandra Belloni ha ritrovato che il tamburello,e tutti I tamburi a cornice sono strumenti appartenenti ad antichi riti femminili, cominciando dagli antichi egiziani, i sumeri, per proseguire con gli antichi greci e i romani.

Nel Sud Italia, come nel Medio Oriente e Nord Africa le donne, spesso sacerdotesse, usavano il tamburo a cornice soprattutto per rituali in onore della Dea della Luna e della Terra, Cibele. Nell'antica Roma le donne usavano il tamburo ed i tamburelli in rituali in onore di Dioniso e la Grande Madre Terra. Questo strumento viene usato ancora oggi in rituali  magico-religiosi  per la Madonna Nera (tammorriata) e per la danza transe conosciuta come tarantella.

Alessandra Belloni e' l'unica donna in Italia e nel mondo che usa e riporta  il tamburo a cornice alla sua antica origine femminile unita al canto, alla danza , e alla terapia della transe creata dal ritmo in 6/8.  riportando alla loro antica origine gli strumenti femminili delle dee della Luna e della Madre Terra. 

Per Alessandra Belloni vedere anche i links: 
www.youtube.com/alessandrabella7, www.facebook.com/alessandrabelloni

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

La Scuola di teatro iniziatico ARTENA

La Scuola di teatro iniziatico ARTENA diretta da Angelo Tonelli

 www.angelotonelli.com  www.alessandrabelloni.com

www.youtube.com/alessandrabelloni

IL RITMO E’ LA CURA e' un seminario di tamburlello e danze rituali dell’Italia meridionale che si concentra sulla tarantella come danza terapeutica e purificatrice.  Fra le danze rituali dell’Italia meridionale utilizzate come musica e danza terapia, unite allo stile singolare del tamburello, particolare attenzione viene dedicata alla danza terapeutica della tarantella, nata per curare dalla mitica puntura della tarantola.

Il Comune di Salzano, Venezia presenta Alessandra Belloni, Gilson SIlveira, Sergio Laccone in CONCERTO DI RITMI TRANSE DIONISIACI DEL SUD ITALIA E BRASILE    Giovedi 15 febbraio - festa di Carnevale presentata dal comune di Salzano

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Center for Modern Dance Education

TARANTELLA: Spider Dance

A Healing Dance Workshop 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

       SUNDAY  January  29– 1:30 to 3:30 PM

                     Center for Modern Dance Education

                                               84 Euclid Avenue,

                                          Hackensack, NJ 07601

Price: , $30 day of; call 201-342-2989 to purchase

In 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!

It is preferred that women wear skirts and bare feet, and if possible white clothe, to help facilitate the feeling of being part of a "ritual."

Alessandra Belloni is a singer, percussionist, dancer and actress who stands as one of the most important voices of traditional southern Italian music and dance today. She is artist in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, and Artistic Director/Founder of I Giullari di Piazza (Players of the Square).  Acclaimed for her mastery of musical styles at home and abroad, she has her own signature series of Italian tambourines designed with the largest percussion industry in the world, REMO.

 More information and videos go to www.alessandrabelloni.comandwww.youtube.com/alessandrabelloni.

Currently celebrating its 50^th Anniversary Year, the Center for Modern Dance Education (CMDE)is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making dance available to everyone. For more information and class schedules visit www.cmde.org.

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

The Studio CMDE

From the Ancient Mediterranean to today, Alessandra Belloni conducts this world renowned   workshop for Women, featuring Southern Italian folk dances and rituals

In 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!

It is preferred that women wear skirts and bare feet, and if possible white clothe, to help facilitate the feeling of being part of a "ritual."

Currently celebrating its 50^th Anniversary Year, the Center for Modern Dance Education is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making dance available to everyone. For more information and class schedules visit www.cmde.org. or call 201-342-2989

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Mehanata

A night of Southern Italian Gypsy Music

Dedicated to the healing power of drumming  featuring the trance 

dance of the tarantella

BACK UNDER POPULAR DEMAND OUR MONTHLY CONCERT

 in our favorite New York WOrld Music Club! 

ALESSANDRA BELLONI -  vocals, southern Italian tambourines, ritual dance 

   Wilson Montuori - electric and acoustic guitars, Giuseppe De Falco: vocals, guitar, Jesica vAliente flutes, vocals, Rick faulkner, electric bass  This fiery "percussive journey" through the South of Italy & 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  wild ritual drumming and guitar solos by Sergio Bellotti and Wilson Montuori.  Bring your dancing shoes!

Monday, December 19th, 2011

Theatre for the New City

In "Drums of Illumination" Alessandra Belloni unites three great cultures: the powerful Native American, the fiery Brazilian, and the passionate Southern Italian, for a  journey back in time into a world of ritual drumming, voice and trance dances, December 19 & 20, 8PM, in Theater for the New City's CINO Theater, 155 First Avenue.

Featured performers are:

Alessandra Belloni - artistic director, voice, percussion, ritual dance.   Her instruments include Southern Italian

       tambourines, frame drums, ocean drum, Bodhran, shakers

Sergio Bellotti - drum set

Giuseppe De Falco - Neapolitan singer

SilverCloud Singers - Kevin Tarrant, director, lead vocals, pow wow drum

Murielle Borst  - vocals, drums

Josephine Tarrant - vocals

Davi Vieira - Brazilian percussion and vocals

Mark Mindek - traditional stilt walker

Artistic Director Alessandra Belloni has gathered a remarkable group of percussionist/vocalists/dancers for the World Premiere of "Drums of Illumination," noting that its purpose is "to invoke World Peace, thus showing that we are all one following the beat: the pow wow drum, the Italian tambourine, the Brazilian pandeiro or timbale, and the drum set.   All will send good vibrations in to the air as a collective ritual of purification."  

Outfitted with an extensive complement of exotic percussion instruments, and both Remo Artists, tambourine virtuoso Alessandra Belloni and drummer Sergio Bellotti (drum teacher at Berklee School of Music in Boston), both from Southern Italy, have enjoyed a long collaboration celebrating and exploring the rhythmic similarities between Southern Italian and other cultures by blending various percussion instruments. With music both ancient and new, Belloni and Bellotti create a bridge between ancient rituals and modern rhythms into a vibrant musical tapestry.

The evening's repertory will include:

Tarantellas from Southern Italy, including the authentic Pizzica Tarantata, healing trance dance from Puglia used

     as an exorcism to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula

Tarantellas used as music therapy and exorcism, dating back to the ancient Greek rites of Dyonisus

Healing chants and drumming in honor of the Black Madonna

Work chants and protest songs

Original songs to honor the Goddess of Love and the Sea, written by Belloni

Brazilian ritual drumming, chants and trance dancing

Native American ritual singing and drumming.

Tambourine virtuoso/singer/dancer/actress Alessandra Belloni is renowned in her field and travels worldwide to perform group and solo concerts in theaters, universities, and international percussion festivals.  Belloni began her career in her native Rome with the great actress Anna Magnani in "La Lupa," and with legendary film director Federico Fellini in "Casanova."   She is Artistic Director/Leading Performer of I Giullari di Piazza, an ensemble of musicians/vocalists/dancers that specializes in authentic Southern Italian music and theater events, dating back to the 13th century.  Belloni is a REMO artist and designer of her signature series of Italian tambourines; she is also author of the book & DVD "Rhythm is the Cure," published by Mel Bay.   The only artist in the world who specializes in Southern Italian tambourines combined with singing and dance, Belloni was selected as one of the best percussionists in the world by DRUM! Magazine, and has been acclaimed in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, featured in Modern Drummer and Percussive

She has been invited to appear in percussion festivals in London, Brazil, Poland, France, Italy, Australia, Rome, and throughout the U.S.  

Don Hackman, writing in the Los Angeles Times, found that "Alessandra Belloni and "Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider" is a revelation, utterly fascinating."  

Drum Magazine noted that "Italian-born virtuoso Alessandra Belloni is established as a unique phenomenon, not just a percussionist, but also an actress, lecturer, entertainer, and healer."

Jon Pareles of The New York Times, reviewing an I Giullari di Piazza show, remarked that "Ms. Belloni sang in an exultant voice.   The songs blazed with an age-old momentum."

Special guest Davi Vieira, percussionist/songwriter/vocalist, and 10-year member of the off-Broadway show  "Stomp."  The native of Salvador-Bahia, Brazil has performed, recorded, and toured with a great variety of artists including David Byrne, Wyclef Jean and Bebel Gilberto.   Vieira will play the songs and rhythms performed in Brazil as purification rites to honor the sea goddess and goddess of the river.

Murielle Borst, Artistic Director of The SilverCloud Singers and Dancers, also distinguished herself in her one-woman show "More Than Feathers and Beads," which was nominated for a Rockefeller grant and selected to participate in the Global Indigenous Theater Festival in Sydney Australia, as well as several venues in NYC.   She has completed six books in her fantasy series, "The Star Song Carriers."   Borst and Belloni, "soul sisters" who share the same energy and spiritual beliefs, first collaborated in 1992 on I Giullari di Piazza's "Earth, Sun and Moon," commissioned by Lincoln Center and performed for years in NYC and on tour.  

The SilverCloud Singers and Dancers is an intertribal Native American troup weaving  the traditional with the contemporary Native American song and dance.   Founded in 1991, the company is named in tribute to Josephine Mofsie Tarrant, mother of the founding directors.   The singers come from many tribes, and many parts of the U.S. and Canada.   They have appeared in numerous Pow-Wows across the continent as well as in tours to Europe.

Sergio Bellotti moved from the south of Italy to the US in 1995 and since 2002 has taught drum set at Berklee College of Music in Boston.   Active in the Boston music scene, Bellotti currently plays with fusion ensemble Spajazzy, co-leads a duo with Alessandra Belloni and performs weekly with WeJazzUp! and with many other local musicians and visiting artists.  Sergio is a regular visiting artist  at the GM Drum School in Torino and the Conservatorio Della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano Switzerland.

Amazing stilt dancer Mark Mindek will represent the Sun, the Moon, the Angel of Death, and bringer of Light the Archangel Gabriel - all on stilts, in traditional Southern Italian style.   Mindek, a longtime member of I Giullari di Piazza, is engaged for special events around the world, and has also been seen towering over singers in several productions at the Metropolitan Opera.

Don Hackman, writing in the Los Angeles Times, found that "Alessandra Belloni and Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider" is a revelation, utterly fascinating"

Drum Magazine noted that "Italian-born virtuoso Alessandra Belloni is established as a unique phenomenon, not just a percussionist, but also an actress, lecturer, entertainer, and healer." 

Jon Pareles of The New York Times, reviewing an I Giullari di Piazza show, remarked that "Ms. Belloni sang in an exultant voice.   The songs blazed with an age-old momentum."

For more information, please visit these links:

www.youtube.com/alessandrabelloni

www.youtube.com/alessandrabella7

www.tigerbill.com/media/cbsergio05.wmv

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Meeting House,

Friday, December 16th, 2011

DAncing Spirit Studio

At The Dancing Spirit Studio,1759 Main Rd, Tiverton  -Call 401 338 9905 -

email:  Barb@thedancingspirit.com - www.thedancingspirit.com

A Healing Dance & Percussion Workshop  

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Alma Mathews House,

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

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

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Saturday, November 19th, 2011

Saturday, November 12th, 2011

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!

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Theatre for the New City

Alessandra Belloni's one woman show TARANTATA ' Southern Italian healing trance drumming, chants, and dances for the special Halloween Ball at the Theatre for the New City, Crystal Fields Director , performance at 8:15,