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ArtWorld Studio Productions is pleased to announce The Toronto Tarantella Project Tarantella 2009, the anthropological musical study and performance of southern Italian folk: music, song, dance, tradition such as the tarantella and pizzica. In March 2007 ArtWorld Studio Productions produced the musical drama called Tarantella. It premiered in Toronto and New York (Off-Off Broadway) at La Mama E.T.C. as a musical theatre production and then in LuminaTO 2007 in a concert version in the open piazza of the Distillery District. Tarantella, an original cultural-anthropological drama, is a celebration of life expressed through the southern Italian traditional music, song and dance of the Tarantella and Pizzica in its original integrity.
Highlights of Tarantella are the exciting diverse forms of the dance of the tarantella and pizzica, expressed through magnificent free style group, duet and striking solos, in which tradition meets pop and classical. Extraordinary is the pizzica tarantata, an ancient female healing dance still practiced today in the deep south of Mediterranean Italy - the speed and rhythm of this beat facilitates the expulsion of the tarantula’s venom, the venom of social, psychological and physical oppressions. Tarantella offers traditional music and ballads that have experienced a revival in Europe, in particular among young people.
The performance features upcoming director and vocalist Marisa Buffone and prominent, internationally renowned and acclaimed musicians. Some prominent musicians of Tarantella have been Claudio Vena, founder of Quartetto Gelato, Silvio Simone, Nuno Cristo, Larry Lewis, Michael Frankiln, Rick Hyslop. Tarantella will also feature original ballads written by Marisa Buffone and authentic period costumes. Dramatic dialogue will be in English, Italian and local Southern Italian dialect with surtitles.
We hope to see you there…
Quotes from the audience:
“I’ll take this opportunity to say I enjoyed the performance and feel privileged to have had an involvement. My best wishes to all and to Marisa in particular.“
Fausto Gaudio, President & C.E.O. Italian Canadian Savings & Credit Union
“I enjoyed every part of the show.” Audience member
“Finally a theatrical piece that caters to an audience that no one caters to.”
Damiano Pietropaolo, Former Head of Arts and Entertainment CBC
“Marisa Buffone has created a chamber opera."Joseph Grimaldi, Musician
This has the potential of becoming a box office hit!Nick Mancuso, Actor
Words can't express the talent and passion that you and your cast and crew continue to bring to the stage through your music, dance, videos and words. You're amazing!! We all loved it.”
Teresa Gaito, High School Teacher
“…the most wonderful holiday Maxine and I ever enjoyed was our 30-day driving trip through Calabria and Sicily.
The musical, Tarantella, brought back many of the memories and experiences we had in Calabria, magically in music and dance -- all in Calabrese style. It was a spirited performance with gifted singers and dancers, typical of southern Italy. The background pictures flowing through the performance, gave us a real reminder of the wonderful places we visited, (one of them of mountainous, Grizzeria, where we made lifelong friends). Thank you for sending us back to Calabria via the musical drama -- Tarantella. The English sub-titles were a plus”. Doug and Maxine Hartry, Rotarians
“I am writing regarding the great performance of the musical play "Tarantella". The crowd gave a standing ovation for all three performances this past weekend." Ralph Chiodo
“It is a wonderful theatre, musical, dance and multimedia show in Calabrese with subtitles in English written, directed, sang and danced by one of our former teachers, Marisa Buffone. After long and very selective auditions, she put together a dance, music and theatre group of the highest caliber.
The music is all taken from the rich folk tradition of Calabria, the play from the personal family story of her immigrant mom's family and the dances from the best Tarantella traditions of that region. The talent, freshness, energy and enthusiasm displayed by the dancers, actors, musicians and singers is truly unprecedented for our local community theatre scene. I invite you all to support Marisa in her efforts by attending the show and seeing if it possible to invite her to your school for a performance. The fact that the play is mostly in dialect should not prevent your students from enjoying the experience, also because the play is simultaneously translated with surtitles and accompanied by very suggestive images on a screen at the back of the stage. You do not need to be Calabrese to enjoy this. Please make every effort to attend and call as many relatives and friends as possible.” Luca Buiani. Coordinator of Italian Studies
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For More Information or to book a perfomance of a “Tarantella” Musical, Concert, Cabaret, Workshop Contact:Marisa Buffone at Artworld Studio Productions phone: 416-831-6144 marisa.buffone@sympatico.ca www.artworldstudioproductions.com |
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