Tarantella Dance Performance @ Slotermeer neighbourhood party

Originally, the Tarantella (Pronounced As: târntel) was a legitimate Italian folk dance of lower to middle classes. The Tarantella has gone by many odd spellings such as Tarentule, Tarantel, Tarantella, and Tarentella . The name essentially means in English "Tarantula Spider (pronounced tranchl.") In Buzabatt, (near Kashan, Persia), it was reported that a Tarantella dance existed just as in Sicily. If the spider specified as "Stellis " had poisoned anyone, they were advised to dance to the sound of music. It was considered severely unlucky to dance the Tarantella alone, so it was danced as a couple or by two females (Goethe says three,) which was probably due to the boredom of dancing alone. Love and pleasure are apparent throughout this dance. Each motion, each gesture, is made with the most voluptuous gracefulness. Animated by the accompanying mandolins, tambourines and castanets, the woman tries, by her rapidity and liveliness, to excite the love of her partner, who, in his turn, endeavors to charm her with his agility, elegance, and demonstrations of tenderness. The two dancers would unite, separate, return, fly into each other's arms, again bound away, and in their unlike gestures alternately express love, coquetry and inconstancy. How long has it been around, we don't really know, but the earliest writings we can find mention the St. Vitus dance in 1374 and nothing until Jean Coaralli, who in 1839 produced the ballet called "La Tarentule."Madame Michau (c.1840s ...



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