04 AUGUST CORIGLIANO D’OTRANTO
Pizzica's laboratory
FLYING CASTLE LOBBY 19:00
I present to you the Festival
HALF FLYING CASTLE 20:30
9.30 pm - VICTORY SQUARE
MENAMENAMÒ
Following
AMBROGIO SPARAGNA
ANAKROUSIS Songs and Sounds along the route of the Greeks
With the Soloists of the Italian Popular Orchestra, the Sparagnina Orchestra and the special participation of Theodoro Melissimopoulos
As usual, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta" starts on 4 August from Corigliano d’Otranto, this year in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new". La Ragnatela della Taranta, the largest Italian traveling festival, will cross 21 municipalities of Salento with 43 pizzica concerts and over 400 artists and will lead, stage after stage at the Concertone on August 27 in Melpignano (Le), to the long night with the concertmaster DARDUST, which will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday 1 September at 11:15 pm.
The beginning of the itinerary is in the heart of Grecìa Salentina, in Corigliano d'Otranto at 7.00 pm in the Atrium Castello Volante where the pizzica workshops run by the Corps of Ballet of the Notte della Taranta return, unmissable events for dance enthusiasts. Salento who meet in the squares of the countries hosting the Festival to participate in the great dancing patrol. The large inclusive and open circles are formed led by the Taranta dancers who accompany the audience to discover the rhythm of the tambourine and the different expressions of the pizzica: pizzica courting, pizzica tarantata and pizzica fencing.
The workshops will be held at 7:30 pm, on 4 August in the atrium of the Castello Volante in Corigliano d'Otranto, on 5 August in piazza Carducci in San Vito dei Normanni, on 6 August in via XXV luglio in Nardò, on 10 August in piazza San Sebastiano in Galatone, on 14 August in piazza Libertini in Lecce and on 24 August in piazza Umberto I in Sternatia.
I present to you the Festival
HALF FLYING CASTLE 20:30
Tomorrow evening, August 4, at 8.30 pm at the Castello Volante in Corigliano D’Otranto, an appointment with Ti
I present the festival, the usual meeting to deepen, in the opening stage, the themes of the Festival
Itinerant Night of the Taranta.
At the press conference, after the initial greetings from Dina Manti, mayor of Corigliano D’Otranto,
Massimo Manera, President of the Notte della Taranta Foundation, Luigi Chiriatti, artistic director of the Festival
Itinerant, Roberto Casaluci, President of Salento Greece, Ivan Stomeo, member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation
Notte della Taranta, Graziano Vantaggiato, Board member of the Notte della Taranta Foundation.
The choreographer of Concertone 2022 will participate in the press conference.
At 9.30 pm on stage in Piazza Vittoria the Menamenamò group, directed by Luigi Mengoli, has long been engaged in ethnomusical research that resulted in the collection, and subsequent publication, of over 400 popular songs from Salento. Guardian of a complex cultural experience, which is able, year after year, to enrich itself with new initiatives, it represents a testimony of the extraordinary creativity of popular culture. Among their record series "Salento, the great Salento music" and "Voices and characters of Salento music" started together with the Amaltea publishing house, "Il Sale del Salento / Unipop", with unpublished photographic and textual documents, to testify the sense of a cultural commitment that after so many years is by no means concluded, but is evolving, aspiring to become an important laboratory for the recovery, processing and development of the collective memory of Salento. The group is made up of: Luigi Mengoli, lead vocal and guitar; Rocco Rizzello, vocals; Francesco Rizzello, vocals; Pascal Coppola, clarinet; Roberto Casciaro, euphonium; Daniele De Pascali, flute; Roberto Mengoli, percussion and tambourine.
To follow, to animate the square, the music of Anakrousis Canti e Suoni along the route of the Greeks, is a project by Ambrogio Sparagna with the soloists of the Popular Italian Orchestra of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, and the voices of the children and of the girls of the polyphonic ensemble Orchestra Sparagnina of Corigliano d'Otranto and the warm and splendid voice of Theodoro Melissinopoulos with his repertoire of lyric songs and Hellenic ballads. The project tells the link between the two shores of the Ionian and the Adriatic, the seas that separate but which have always united the peoples that overlook them. Songs and sounds in Greek and in Grica to highlight the link, including sound, between Greece and Salento Greece, but there is no lack of references to the musical traditions of other areas of southern Italy that have developed strong and lasting with ancient Greece. bonds still present in the language, in the music, in the cultural horizon.
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Next stop, on 5 August for the first time in the history of the traveling Festival in San Vito dei Normanni (BR) in Piazza Carducci. It starts at 19:00 with the Pizzica Workshop. At 21:00 on the stage ANTONIO CASTRIGNANÒ & amp; TARANTA SOUNDS and to follow the POPULAR ORCHESTRA LA NOTTE DELLA TARANTA
The Itinerant Festival is a project of the Notte della Taranta Foundation supported by the Puglia Region, Pugliapromento, Grecìa Salentina, the Diego Carpitella Institute.
Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes by Maurizio De Mariani
Partner: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,
Social partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.
Official carrier Concertone: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS
Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.
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