Sensual dancers will enact the ancient ecstatic rites of Dionysus when Theater for the New City presents Alessandra Belloni and her company, I Giullari di Piazza, in "Tarantella: Spider Dance" January ...

Theater for the New City will present 'TARANTELLA - SPIDER DANCE', tonight, January 18-20, 2013. New York is bitten again by the Spider -- the mystical and sensual music/theater/dance spectacular ...

Night of the Taranta, an Italian folk music festival akin to Woodstock, celebrates a musical tradition that dates to antiquity. The Folk Music Festival That Started With A Spider Bite The tarantella ...

Today, dance is most commonly used as a form of entertainment. But since the time of the ancient Greeks, many dances have integrated folklore for therapeutic use or worship. The International Resource ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a tantalizing tarantella performed by L'Arpeggiata. The early music group is led by Austrian harpist and orchestra conductor Christina Pluhar. They give this Neapolitan ...

The tarantella is a lively folk dance and musical style originating in southern Italy's Apulia region, the heel of the Italian geographic boot. Its name derives from the poisonous bite of a local ...