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PIZZICA TARANTATA - a wild 6/8 rhythm played on medium size tambourines. The healing trance dance is done mainly by women who suffered from depression known as tarantismo and is often used for mental health disorders and imbalances. film clip from the 2013 workshop in Tuscany at http://youtu.be/16-TIZ40ZfU ;   RITMO E DANZA DI SAN ROCCO (Spi...

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New York was given a touch of Italian colour this month when Rome-based artist Alice Pasquini painted a narrative triptych across its boroughs during a two-week painting programme.   Pasquini, whose street signature is Alicè, has made a career out of street art, painting mixed-media pieces and large-scale murals over the past decade and on d...

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Le B nobili del vino italiano catturano la scena newyorkese. Oltre 50 produttori vitivinicoli del Belpaese sono stati i protagonisti della passerella in «rosso» organizzata dal team di James Suckling & Zachys, che ha portato nella privilegiata vetrina della Grande Mela Brunello, Barbaresco e Barolo.   «E' stata l'occasione per riunire i...

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Come Columbus Day weekend, Staten Islanders can prime their appetites for a fresh, new outdoor festival. On Saturday, Oct. 11, the Borough President's Office announced the inaugural "Rome through Richmond Town: A Celebration of Italian Culture," a six-hour, free fete to all things Italian that's intended to replace the New Dorp Lane parade tra...

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November marks the 60th anniversary of the closing of the Ellis Island immigration facility. From 1892 until the center's closing in 1954, the small island in New York harbor served as the official entry and processing point for over 12 million immigrants. It has been estimated that over 40 percent of Americans can trace their ancestry through Elli...

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The Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance (ILICA) is a not for profit foundation dedicated to the promotion of the Italian language as an instrument of understanding and study of a culture in continuous evolution, directed at not only Americans of Italian origin, but all those who share an interest in learning the Italian language as a key to un...

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The New York Festival of Song will be presenting Bel Canto/Can Belto as a part of its Emerging Artist Series and exploration of Italian song. The show marks NYFOS’s seventh annual residency at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.   Bel Canto/Can Belto will be an exploration of Italian song. Five young artists will take the a...

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Russo’s Restaurants, the founders of dining concepts that include Russo’s New York Pizzeria and Russo’s Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen, announced today plans to significantly enhance the brands’ footprint in the Greater Memphis Area in order to continue expansion into key markets.   Demonstrating the excitement around the brand, Russo’s kicked o...

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di Andrea Marinelli   «Little Italy sta diventando sempre più piccola», scriveva il New York Times all’inizio del 2011. «Lo sconfinamento iniziato decenni fa – con Chinatown che si allargava a nord, SoHo che si espandeva da ovest e con altre aree che venivano elegantemente ribattezzate NoLiTa (North of Little Italy) e NoHo – sembra ormai com...

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31 May 2015, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PMDopo il successo della Caccia al Tesoro Italiano dello scorso anno, in occasione delle celebrazioni per la Festa della Repubblica 2015, il Consolato Generale d'Italia a New York sponsorizza la Treasure Hunt: Lights, Camera, Action, una vera e propria maratona fotografica orgnizzata da Elastica e dall'Associazione...

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