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International Dance Day, on April 29, will coincide with the publication of new never-seen-before content on the italiana Vimeo channel: DOAM (here the article). The documentary is based on Diary of a Move, a project by Italian-Japanese dancer Masako Matsushita (here the interview) in which over sixty people recorded and shared their day-to-day mov...

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The first Italian immigrants in the United States of America brought many unique features and customs, such as the culinary tradition, the vivid language, and some peculiar musical genres. Your grandparents probably remember when, in the early 1900s, a particular Italian musicality became popular especially in Californian ballrooms: for sure, they...

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3-Day Workshop / Lecture series on Zoom. In order to participate, RSVP and you will receive an e-mail with invitation links to the 3 workshops: February 9, February 11 and February 16. If you don't receive the e-mail by then, contact us at casa.italiana@nyu.edu  Featuring I Giullari di Piazza - Alessandra Belloni (Singer, percussionist, teacher. Au...

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The coronavirus pandemic has not slowed down the Mariinsky Ballet's Maria Khoreva. Although Russia's Mariinsky Theater was closed in 2020 from March until August, the 20-year-old first soloist used the time in quarantine to her advantage. She wrote a newly published book titled Teach Me Ballet, and won Best Female Dancer on Russia's hit TV show "Gr...

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Folk dances tell stories and reflect a group’s diverse history and culture. While the tarantella — arguably Italy’s most famous folk dance — is best known today as a dance performed at weddings, its origins are as ancient as they are peculiar. The tarantella traces its origins to Taranto, a city in Puglia, the “heel” of Italy’s “boot.” The dance da...

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Cari Amici, we invite you will join us online for a very special event Tuesday, January 5, 2021, from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, live from Tom Tedesco’s Studio, for an Epiphany celebration hosted by Artistic Director Alessandra Belloni and Music Director John La Barbera, co-founders of I Giullari di Piazza. For tickets visit here.  This will be a special o...

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Dieci telecamere. Cinquanta microfoni. Ventitré tra le più grandi voci del nostro tempo. Étoile e primi ballerini del corpo di ballo. E naturalmente l'Orchestra e il Coro, con il loro Direttore musicale, Riccardo Chailly.  È la prima del Teatro alla Scala, in una serata intitolata "A riveder le stelle", con la regia di Davide Livermore, che nonosta...

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When: Mon, 12/07/2020 at 5:00pm - Broadcast on our Facebook page and website On the occasion of the release of Parole che danzano (Rizzoli, 2020), the principal dancer étoile of La Scala Roberto Bolle sifts through a collection of images that survey his entire career, in conversation with Grazia D'Annunzio (Università Statale di Milano).

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Dance, magic, music, joy, love, liberation: if you asked a Salentinian what the pizzica means, he would respond with these words. Pizzica (pinch) is the famous popular dance spread throughout Salento, the heel of Italy, and has ancient origins. In recent years it has been exported and known thanks to the Night of the Taranta held in late August in ...

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Passionate, joyful and full of energy, Giorgia Vitali is the only Italian girl authorized and recognized to practice and teach “Bollywaack” dance style in New York. Giorgia grew up in Torano, a small Italian village in the region of Abruzzo and started at early age to take dance classes at at "Associazione Danza Insieme", a dance school directed by...

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