The experience

Your journey through the tarantella of Puglia

In the course of your life you have surely heard a hint of tarantella distractedly sung by your busy parents or grandparents at home, or come across a faded photograph of someone playing an ancient musical instrument, or have memories of an old tambourine with rusty rattles hanging on the walls of your village home. Well, the journey we are proposing for you to rediscover your Puglian roots also involves learning about the musical repertoires and traditional dance of Puglia.

The tarantella, the pizzica pizzica and other traditional music and dances: this is a very rich heritage of oral culture, with infinite variations by territorial area, country, performer, with styles, gestures and postures that allow a glimpse of the history and life of this territory, its people and communities.

Workshops on pizzica pizzica, tarantella, traditional dance

With our “roots workshops on traditional dance in Puglia”, led by dancers and researchers of oral culture – our “guardians of tradition” – you can meet the pizzica pizzica and other local tarantellas. They gave rhythm to the festive moments of your ancestors, in the walls of the house tightened around the fireplace, as in the stone farmyards where they gathered at the end of a summer day of work in the countryside around the “ronda”, the traditional circle that delimited the dance space.

Recovering a root also means recovering the memory of the bodies that danced: jointhe “patrol” to share a moment of joy in the way of the past!