Alessandra Belloni

Biography

Alessandra Belloni is an Italian musician, singer, dancer, actress, choreographer, teacher, and ethnomusicologist. Her instrument is the Southern Italian tambourine and her music and dance are focused on the traditional roots of tarantella. Her studies of tarantism are rooted in the culture of Apulia and Calabria, expressing it from women's point of view. Her work has gained international appreciation, especially in the United States and Brazil. She is artist in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

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Internationally renowned singer, dancer, percussionist, teacher, healer ,author
ALESSANDRA BELLONI REMO ARTIST designingher line of tambourines, director of the Italian Folk Music, Dance & Theatre company I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City Email [email protected] www.alessandrabelloni.com featuring ritual drumming and trance dances, excerpts of her shows in New York and around the world, as TARANTELLA SPIDER DANCE, RHYTHM IS THE CURE, healing dance & percussion workshops in Tuscany, DAUGHTERS OF CYBELE, concert at Symphony Space, Mount Shasta, appearances on ABC TV, Brazilian Globo TV, and the film trailer TARANTELLA TRANCE DANCE & LIVING SHAMANISM. More to come

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• 01 338 Alessandra Belloni Receives Music Preservation Award 2016 May 3, 2016
• 02 1.9K Voices of The Tarantate -Ave Maria Chant to the Black Madonna of Montserrat Apr 22, 2016
• 03 779 Voices of The Tarantate - Sufi Spinning Dance by Amara- show about women abuse & domestic violence Apr 22, 2016
• 04 189 Voices of The Tarantate -about abuse & domestic violence "He Forced Me" Apr 22, 2016
• 05 249 Voices Of The Tarantate - I Hear Other Women Cry - Women washing their blood Apr 22, 2016