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LA NOTTE DELLA TARANTA - EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS FOR 2022 EDITION

Extraordinary success for the 2022 edition of the Notte della Taranta, one of the most important folk music festivals in the world promoted by the Fondazione Notte della Taranta with the support of the Puglia Region, Puglia Promozione, Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina and the Diego Carpitella Institute.  
 
"La Notte della Taranta promotes not only the music, dance and beauty of the pizzica but has the ability to bring tradition and innovation into dialogue, highlights Puglia Region President Michele Emiliano. A process of connection between the languages of art that is a projection of a model of creative development capable of representing Puglia by foregrounding its rich cultural heritage. The images of the square of Melpignano with thousands of citizens and tourists from all over the world are unforgettable. A memorable edition that once again highlighted the talent and beauty of Puglia. I thank Massimo Manera and his team, and I thank all the artists who participated in this great inclusive and welcoming festival like a pizzica patrol."

"The Concertone confirms its enormous success and will return on August 26, 2023 with all its extraordinary ability to dialogue with the public", announces Foundation President Massimo Manera. "I thank the President of Puglia Region Michele Emiliano and the General Director of Puglia Promozione Luca Scandale who believed in the cultural project by actively supporting the Foundation. Culture, beauty, research, innovation, and participation will still be the key words of our activity, which starts again immediately with three concerts on September 18 in Elba Island, September 23 in San Vito Lo Capo, and October 6 in Lecce."

Unprecedented media coverage for the 2022 edition that reached more than 60 million contacts through the Foundation's social platforms and through the communication strategy that used multiple languages to reach different audiences. Suffice it to say that La Notte della Taranta, which landed on Tik Tok on the eve of the Concertone, reached an audience of 8000 users in a few hours with 2.2 million interactions.
More than 5 million people reached on Facebook, 15 million impressions on Instagram and an endless production of stories from users, artists, guests, influencers who tagged the official page. Among the most active influencers: Gianluca Fru of the comedy group TheJackal and the Concertone host Elodie herself, who leaps to the top of the social ratings with her Pizzica di san Vito, followed by Stromae's Alors On Danse, Marco Mengoni's Klama, and traditional songs Acqua de la Funtana performed by Stefania Morciano and Aria Caddhipulina performed by Antonio Amato.

Exceptional data on accesses to the official website of the Foundation that on August 27 broadcasted worldwide (excluding Italy) on the www.lanottedellataranta.it streaming platform the Concertone reaching 825,000 requests mainly from Argentina, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, the United States, Chile, England, France, Greece, Albania, Australia and recording two access requests from Ukraine.
On twitter the hashtags #taranta25 and #WeAreinPuglia remained trending on both August 27 and September 1, when the Concertone was broadcast by Rai 1 reaching 8% share in second night with 426,000 viewers and with the special report on Estate in Diretta 1,460,000 viewers. There was a steady increase in the viewing figures on Rai Play.
Mediaset dedicated the MAG Studio Aperto special to the Melpignano event, which reached 6% share with 328,087 viewers. Stunning Italian and foreign news coverage. The event was followed by TG1 13:30, TG2 13:00, TG3 14:20, TG3 Puglia all editions, TG5 night, TG5 8:00, TG5 8:00, Studio Aperto 12:25, Studio Aperto 18:25 with over 15 million users reached and by the all news Sky Tg24, RaiNews24, TgCom24 with over 6 million users reached. Extensive and qualified coverage from the radio news of RTL 102.5, RDS, Radio Capital, Rai Radio 1, with over 12 million users reached. With correspondents in Melpignano also present foreign TV from Albania, Slovenia, Romania and remote coverage from Switzerland and Greece. The choice was made taking into consideration the tourism planning of the new flights to and from Puglia.
Valuable was the coverage of national newspapers, news agencies and in particular Puglia, which since 1998, the date of birth of the Notte della Taranta, have accompanied the cultural growth path of the event, actively contributing to the development of the territory.
As confirmed by Federalberghi and reported by Il Sole 24 Ore, the Notte della Taranta remains the only cultural event capable of selling out in all facilities in Salento with a remarkable increase of foreign tourists compared to July figures.
With 200,000 attendees at the Concertone in the square and 50,000 at the general rehearsals, the 25th edition of the Notte della Taranta marks its historical record of attendance.

Special thanks to the Communications Team coordinated by Gabriella Della Monaca that included Colibrì, Papel Studio, FreeJungle, Commedia Digital Trasformation, WeMake.

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NOTTE DELLA TARANTA Thursday, September 1 RAI 1 - 11:30 p.m.

With

Bersani - Elodie - Madame - Mengoni - Stromae - Danger

 

and with

 

Antonio Amato - Salvatore Galeanda - Giancarlo Paglialunga

Consuelo Alfieri - Alessandra Caiulo - Stefania Morciano - Enza Pagliara.

 

Social marathon on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Taranta's TikTok

 

After the resounding success with audiences and critics, the Concertone della Notte della Taranta, which bewitched 200,000 pluckers, lands on RAI 1 on Thursday, September 1 at 11:30 pm.

Madame and Gino Castaldo from the former Convent of Melpignano (Le) will lead RAI 1 viewers on the musical journey proposed by maestro concertatore Dardust with the artistic direction of the Popular Orchestra.

A program written by Massimo Martelli and Rossella Rizzi, set design Marco Calzavara, director of photography Marco Lucarelli, RAI delegate Cristiano D'Agostini, visual Filippo Rossi and Mauro Bubbico.

The program will open with Elodie dancing the Pizzica di San Vito and unleashing the square. The drone images render all the magic of the architectural complex of the Convento degli Agostiniani, now a symbol of the Notte della Taranta while Taranta di Lizzano interpreted by the versatile voice of Salvatore Galeanda, opens with the tambourine players of the Roberto and Alessandro Chiga Orchestra, Carlo Canaglia and Gioele Nuzzo who light up the show to the rhythm of the tambourine.

A sequence of images directed by Stefano Mignucci give viewers all the energy of the pizzica experienced in the square after two years of waiting, and when international guest Stromae enters the stage, they explode with joy and are moved by Marco Mengoni's masterful interpretation of the Grico text Klama, a story of emigration, departures and returns. Love in all its expressions invades the scene in the choreography by Irma di Paola who introduces LIS language into dance on the text Acqua de La Funtana with the engaging Stefania Morciano and gives on Pizzica di Torchiarolo interpreted by the very young Orchestra performer Consuelo Alfieri, with the presence of 40 people from the audience in addition to the 16 dancers, the snapshot of a contemporary folk festival where the special guests are inclusion and an olive tree, symbol of rebirth.

For the 25th anniversary of Taranta, Samuele Bersani sings Lu ruciu de lu mare and a version of Chicco e Spillo signed by Dardust. There is also the voice of Vito Nigro cantor of Villa Castelli in the pizzica interpreted by the unmistakable voice of Enza Pagliara and images flow over the faces of the Taranta people while on stage Dardust gives a futurist vision of the longest Night in Puglia. His Bardaggin is the announcement of a space journey that will take viewers to listen to sounds from the Balkans to Japan, passing through baroque ones without ever abandoning electronics and the genius taste of transforming the Melpignano stage into an international event. And like every journey there is rapper Massimo Pericolo to remind us that "if you leave it is only to feel alive but you never forget where you were a child" with his Il Signore del Bosco in a pizzicato version. But life's journey also always holds bitter truths like Secuta Secuta, the song about betrayal of the older brother that Studio Murena updates in theme and sound. The journey is nostalgia as in Aremu interpreted with extreme passion by Alessandra Caiulo and on harp Kety Fusco. Another minority language the arbëreshë gives new suggestions between the tradition of the song Ec Ec and the contemporary language of Madame that adds a poetic cameo.

The all-dancing finale with Aria Caddhipulina sung by the voice of the land of Salento Antonio Amato moves on to Pizzica Stifani with the archaic and powerful voice of Giancarlo Paglialunga and concludes with the hymn Calinitta where all the guests sing in Grico and Dardust turns the song into a real hit on the Miami, Ibiza, Melpignano, Tel Aviv axis.

A 110-minute narrative that summarizes the long journey of the Melpignano Concertone and enhances the beauty of the work that took 9 months of work and research. A narration entrusted to the visual language of Galattico and Mauro Bubbico with the project "W il cielo, il mare, la terra" and archival materials by Mario Cresci, Marcello D'Andrea, Antonio Toce, Raffaele Falcone, Fornace Falcone, Luigi di Gianni, Gianfranco Mingozzi and the photographs of Salvatore Palumbo, the bicycle photographer from Calimera of the Palumbo Photographic Archive, Castromediano Museum - Biblio-Museum Pole of Lecce. 

MADAME AND GINO CASTALDO ON RAI 1 WITH CAPASA MILANO DRESSES and FUTURO REMOTE JEWELS

Madame and Gino Castaldo, the narrating voices of the final Melpignano Concertone that will be aired Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m. on Rai Uno, will dress in the clothes of one of Italy's leading brands that has its roots in the Salento sartorial tradition. Their outfit is by Capasa Milano, the new brand, founded by Ennio Capasa: the jewelry Madame will wear will be by Futuro Remoto, the brand of designer Gianni De Benedittis.

Madame, at the final Melpignano Concertone on Saturday, August 27, onstage first during the performance of the song Ec Ec and then for the customary Calinitta finale, wore an oversize suit, very brightly colored, electric blue and essential cut. Like CAPASA's style, which is taut and essential, open to contamination and dialogue. The search for timeless modernity is condensed into the proposal of limited series with regular cadences and timeless pieces imagined to have a long life. Scarcity instead of excess supply: the opposite of disposable. Women's, men's, and gender fluid products that combine the ultimate in tailoring with the ultimate in technology: laser cutting and nanotechnology instead of scissors and sewing machines without sacrificing hand stitches; 3d designs and pushed customization. In line with the mission of the Notte della Taranta, which for some time has been researching combining tradition and innovation to project traditional music into the future; the Capasa Milano brand also focuses on technology integrated with the preservation of artisan knowledge and Made in Italy, because it is in the fusion of knowledge that progress lies. A tailoring approach, then, extended from ready-to-wear to accessories and beyond, in transparency and traceability. All to be discovered is the look that the multifaceted artist, on Sept. 1 in the unprecedented guise of anchorwoman will propose to Rai 1 viewers wearing an outfit of great quality with Capasa Milano clothes and Futuro Remoto jewelry.

LINE UP RAI PROGRAM

Pizzica of San Vito - Elodie

Taranta di Lizzano - Consuelo Alfieri, Alessandra Caiulo, Stefania Morciano, Enza Pagliara, Antonio Amato, Salvatore Galeanda, Giancarlo Paglialunga.

Klama - Marco Mengoni

Pizzica di Aradeo - Consuelo Alfieri, Alessandra Caiulo, Stefania Morciano, Enza Pagliara, Antonio Amato, Salvatore Galeanda, Giancarlo Paglialunga.

Alors on dance - Stromae

Villa Castelli - Enza Pagliara

Pizzica of Torchiarolo - Consuelo Alfieri

Stornelli - Consuelo Alfieri, Alessandra Caiulo, Stefania Morciano, Enza Pagliara, Antonio Amato, Salvatore Galeanda, Giancarlo Paglialunga.

Secuta Secuta - Studio Murena

Lu ruciu de lu mare - Samuele Bersani

- Second part -

Chicco e spillo - Samuele Bersani

Damme la manu - Antonio Amato

Canto del trainiere - Giancarlo Paglialunga

Bardaggin - Dardust

Lord of the Woods - Massimo Pericolo

Ec Ec - Salvatore Galeanda and Madame

Aremu - Alessandra Caiulo and on harp Kety Fusco

Pizzica of Ostuni - Salvatore Galeanda and Stefania Morciano

But tonight - Marco Mengoni

Acqua de la funtana - Stefania Morciano

Aria Caddhipulina - Antonio Amato

Pizzica di Stifani - Giancarlo Paglialunga

Calinitta - Madame, Elodie, Marco Mengoni, Samuele Bersani, Massimo Pericolo, Enza Pagliara, Cosunelo Alfieri, Stefania Morciano, Alessandra Caiulo.

 

SOCIAL MARATHON

Starting at 9 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 1, all the social channels of the Notte della Taranta Foundation will start the marathon of exclusive and unedited content to relive all the emotions of the Concertone.

On the website www.lanottedellataranta.it and on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, You Tube, the communication team will give users the first exclusive social movie of the Concertone.

 

Official hashtags #taranta25 #WeAreinPuglia

 

 

La Notte della Taranta is a cultural research project of Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella in collaboration with Comune di Melpignano (Le).

Main Sponsor: DMJ Gruppo De Mariani

Sponsors: Acqua Orsini, Fifa Security

Social partners: Acquedotto Pugliese, Associazione Olivami, Fratres.

THE HUGE HUG FROM THE 200,000

Great success last night for La Notte della Taranta, edition number 25. An important date that saw the return of the audience of 200,000 in the space in front of the former Convent of the Augustinians in Melpignano in the province of Lecce. Maestro concertmaster of this "space" Night as he called it, Dardust. A journey through time and space that starts from the tambourine tradition and touches on new worlds and the futuristic sounds of electronics. International guest of this edition Stromae, who performed his very famous song Alor On Danse, with forays into popular music. Highly anticipated guests: Marco Mengoni, with his unmistakable voice performed the traditional song Klama and then his hit "But Tonight." A high-energy performance also came from Elodie, who sang and danced the San Vito pizzica on stage and then offered her hit "Tribale" in a "pizzicato" version with tambourines. Also on stage at the Taranta concertone were Samuele Bersani in a poignant love song "Lu Ruciu de lu mare" and with his Chicco e Spillo and rapper Massimo Pericolo. A long night with the artistic direction of the Popular Orchestra of La Notte della Taranta, the great protagonist of the Concertone and which saw the corps de ballet engaged with 10 paintings signed by choreographer Irma Di Paola to ignite the wonder with unique and engaging performances. A show capable of dragging and involving the audience, also with the effects of lights: the luminaries typical of traditional Salento festivals and with visual projections by Filippo Rossi and Italian designer anthropologist Mauro Bubbico. An edition dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini and his monumental research on the popular poetry of "Canzoniere Italiano." The long night of Melpignano will be broadcast on Rai 1 on Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

 

photo night

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TARANTA NIGHT, MAXIMUM MANERA STATEMENT

"It is an important milestone that of 25 years, spent to enhance the cultural heritage of folk songs and the minority language of Grecìa Salentina. The Notte della Taranta has always been open to new musical genres and continuous research on the territory and dialogue between cultures. This edition marks the return with the audience, to that direct contact between artists on stage and spectators. It will be an extraordinary show that will also focus on innovation, not only through Dardust's music that will take a sonic journey between tradition and contemporaneity, but also thanks to the support of evocative effects on stage with visual storytelling that meets the traditional illuminations typical of our festivals."

 

Massimo Manera president of the La Notte della Taranta Foundation

THE NIGHT OF TARANTA 25

Themes: Research, innovation, future, cultural ecology
Concert 2022 dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini

Popular Orchestra conducted by DARDUST
Guests: Samuele Bersani, Stromae, Marco Mengoni, Elodie, Massimo Pericolo, Studio Murena and Kety Fusco.

"La Notte della Taranta," said Puglia Regional President Michele Emiliano, "is for me a place of participation, meeting and knowledge between cultures. When artists come together, something extraordinary does not necessarily have to be born. But you need to try and have the desire to meet: an event like the Notte della Taranta undergoes precisely this process of mental rearrangement that happens through creativity. For us, it means welcoming all these passions and creative ideas: there is, of course, a complex machine behind such an important event that is at work all year round, with untold effort that also involves risks. The board of directors takes responsibility for the choices in full autonomy, which - I must say - I have always shared, understanding also the many difficulties. It takes courage, and for that I thank the entire board. I have verified in these long months of preparation how much the choices made have been appreciated first of all by the public, such as that of the concertmaster to whom our esteem goes.
I look forward to sharing and enjoying this event especially with the younger generation. Good work to everyone," concluded President Emiliano, "and have a happy Notte della Taranta.
The president of the Apulia Region spoke at the press conference presenting Notte della Taranta number 25. The conference opened in memory of one of the last singers of the tradition Giovanni Avantaggiato, who passed away a few days ago and was greeted with a moving applause from those present. It will be a memorable edition, pointed out Gino Castaldo, who together with Madame will narrate La Notte della Taranta aired on Thursday, September 1 on RAI 1 at 11:15 pm. Four pivotal themes for 2022: research, innovation, future and cultural ecology.

Research.

Launched in November 2021 research on traditional texts and sounds by maestro Dardust and the resident Popular Orchestra coordinated by Gianluca Longo. A long work of connecting languages. "I have never worked so hard on a project in my life, it is an incredible experience," said maestro concertmaster Dardust, who stressed "how contamination was the key word around which the spatial journey was built, which starts from tradition and then touches contemporary and futuristic universes with electronic music. Contaminating, without betraying tradition, contaminating it, even distorting it in some cases, but always with extreme respect for a people and their tradition. It is a journey through space and time that of edition number 25 that starts from the 1600s, from the baroque, there are also the sounds of David Bowie, but everything, I hope, is done with elegance and respect. An incredible bond has been created with the Orchestra, Dardust reiterated again. It is an experience that I will carry with me for the rest of my life." The maestro concertatore then explained the reasons for the choice of guest artists for the Orchestra and the Concertone, "in the sign of that fluidity that has no tracks and no fences the choice could only fall on a singer-songwriter like Samuele Bersani, whose artistic path is an extremely free one. So are Elodie and Mengoni, exponents of pop music in which the contamination of genres is very evident. And of course with this in mind, the choice was almost natural on an international artist like Stromae who has made multiculturalism his strong point: there is never a predictable track in his career. Like this edition of the Notte della Taranta, which will not be predictable at all."

Present at the press conference was artist Samuele Bersani: "I have been doing this job for 30 years and for 20 I had hoped to be able to participate in the Notte della Taranta. That is why when I was approached with the invitation to be part of the cast of this edition, I could only be overjoyed. Empathy was immediately created, and then I return to a land with which I have an incredible relationship: Puglia." Samuele Bersani then joked about the song he will perform tomorrow night at the Concertone, "I will bring the song Lu Ruciu de lu mare, which is about a difficult and twisted love. It could not be otherwise in my case, I have always told this kind of love in my songs."

Research also for the choreography entrusted to Irma di Paola, who for the first time will introduce the LIS language in Acqua de La Funtana. "I am happy to be the choreographer of the Concertone, said Irma Di Paola, here I found the desire to love my work again because of the freedom I received to express myself as I wanted. There are 11 choreographies that I have built on as many traditional pieces, and in one I have included sign language, which is my mother tongue. They will be inclusive paintings that know no barriers."

 

Innovation

An element of innovation this year on the Concertone stage with the grafting of impressive video walls into the set design. "W il cielo, il mare, la terra" is Galattico's visual project with designer anthropologist Mauro Bubbico, coordinated by show designer Filippo Rossi and Selene Sanua, "composed of a complex system of visual languages: illustration, pattern, photography and cinema comment on and amplify what is happening on the stage, guide the audience to discover the sense of the marvelous, immerse them in a magical atmosphere, to rediscover festive rituals and symbolism originally linked to production cycles that have now disappeared by taking on new meanings and functions or amplifying some latent and secondary ones. The images, of different nature and origin, are animated, re-combined with each other in harmony with the other performance materials. The scenes are organized to represent the salient moments of the story told, and the images provide support for the music and background for the dance troupe. The main intent is to guide the audience to rediscover the sense of festivity, to invite them to have a totalizing experience of reality in which, through sound, images, colors, words and the body, the creative power of nature is affirmed and the founding events of the cosmos and life are celebrated." Thanks to the collaboration between the Notte della Taranta Foundation and the Lecce Biblio-museum Pole, it was possible to use a wide selection of the images of Giuseppe Palumbo, who between 1907 and 1959 scanned the Salento, photographing places, rituals, cultures, and stories, and then allocated his Archive to the Castromediano Museum in Lecce. For Luigi De Luca, director of the Lecce Biblio-museum Pole, "this collaboration with the Notte della Taranta confirms that the synergy between institutions and the resulting planning can only be oriented toward a fruitful dialogue of all the arts. 

Contemporaneity demands a conscious recovery of the past, in a single stream that unites ancient and contemporary."

POPULAR ORCHESTRA

The Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta is entrusted with the Artistic Direction of Concertone 2022. The Orchestra is composed of singers and tambourine players Consuelo Alfieri (also accordion) Alessandra Caiulo, Stefania Morciano, Enza Pagliara, Antonio Amato, Salvatore Cavallo Galeanda Giancarlo Paglialunga, and musicians Gianluca Longo (mandola), Peppo Grassi (mandolin), Attilio Turrisi (chitarra battente), Giuseppe Astore (violin) Roberto Chiga, Alessandro Chiga, Carlo Canaglia De Pascali (tambourine from Salento), Roberto Gemma (bellows), Nico Berardi (woodwinds), Leonardo Cordella (accordion), Alessandro Monteduro (percussion), Antonio Dema De Marianis (drums), Valerio Combass Bruno (bass), Gioele Nuzzo (tambourine and didgeridoo).

For the August 27 Concertone, the Popular Orchestra's ensemble will be joined by a wind section composed of Mattia Dalla Pozza (sax), Francesco Minutello (trumpet), Federico Pierantoni (trombone) and Raul Moretto (tuba), and a string section composed of Caterina Coco (violin), Elisa Cavalazzi (violin), Matteo Lipari (viola), Simone Giorgini (violin) and Simone Sitta (cello). Also on stage are Vanni Casagrande (synth and percussion) and Marcello Piccinini (percussion).

CORPS DE BALLET

The Corps de Ballet has been spreading the "pizzica" for years on the stages of national and international tours with engaging choreography on the songs performed by the Popular Orchestra. It consists of Mihaela Coluccia, Cristina Frassanito, Serena Pellegrino, Lucia Scarabino, Veronica Mele, Stefano Campagna, Andrea Caracuta, Marco Martano, Fabrizio Nigro and Mattia Politi. Six professionals will join the corps de ballet on the concert stage: Serena Pomer, Vittoria Markov, Gabriele Riccio, Alessandro Covarelli, Gabriele Virgilio and Francesco Cariello, assistant to the choreographer.

Melpignano is preparing to host the large audience expected for the event: "It is a great commitment for my community and for this I thank the fellow citizens who are always open and willing to welcome the thousands of people who will reach the small town of Grecìa Salentina. The Notte della Taranta also represents my community, ready to confront the world also through music," said Mayor Valentina Avantaggiato.

Melpignano's represents the final stage of the Itinerante Festival that began on Aug. 4 and involved as many as 21 municipalities until Aug. 25. "We have hosted the popular groups that over the years have continued to work on the revival of traditional music from Salento, pointed out Itinerante artistic director Luigi Chiriatti.

CONCERT DEDICATED TO PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

The creative direction of the Notte della Taranta Foundation decided to dedicate the 2022 edition to Pier Paolo Pasolini by choosing verses from the Italian Canzoniere Antologia della poesia popolare.

Pier Paolo Pasolini published in 1955 a monumental anthology collecting 791 texts. A long and painstaking work that the author illustrates perfectly in the preface, which constitutes a very important work. In fact, Italo Calvino will write in a note "Your selection is of great poetic intelligence ... then there is the preface ... There are those sort of little portraits of the various regions through their songs, which are beautiful ... The digging out of poetry from the crudest and most stingy texts is the prince critical exercise, and the one that teaches the most."

Pier Paolo Pasolini in the introduction to the Italian Canzoniere writes "One laments, for the Puglies, the lack of a central organic work on which to base a choice: despite the willing contribution of one La Sorsa and many others, still working. An overall view of the popular poetry of this region is not given to us: it is fractionated in its provincial or city sections, but nevertheless, unless disproved, it can be reconstructed and somewhat synthesized without having an impression of singularity. It is located in the area of irradiation from Sicily, via Naples: one finds there the typical vestiges of the Baroness of Carini and the usual amorous motifs returned in the well-known scheme of the strambotto. It is therefore no more than a matter, for an anthologist, to look for good variants, or to seize some tasty variety. In the Gargano, for example, where there is almost nothing of poetry at least to infer from Tancredi's pamphlet (cf. bibl.): there is the absolute rusticity of a people on the fringes of even the lowest currents of culture, but who, too, without those currents of culture, would have no song and no poetry: very recent, certainly due to military service in the Kingdom of Italy, must be there the imports of Angiolina bell'Angiolina or Mamma, mamma, dammi cento lire.

The poetry of the place, clumsy and puerile, without images, pedestrian in its contaminations, and yet moving in some of its mountainous and very humble cheerfulness, is all bound up with the convention of the love approach.

There is, at the beginnings of that approach, first lu zinn, the wink of the stocky peasant boy, u cacckiuncidd, at the girl; then, in the company of the other young men, li cacckiune, the Sunday mass; then u surdelline, the sordina under the lover's house, la zita; finally, if all goes well, the serenade (purtè lu sunett), in which first the strusce, the strambotti, are sung, and then the prima and seconda, one-voice song and chorus, and l'ariett a la stesa or la vichese, and finally lu salute, the greeting. A lu consent (engagement) and a lu spusaggke, the tarantella.

In Taranto, in Barese, in Leccese, in Salento, in Brindisi-from the small collections and contributions that can be gleaned-the usual, modest harvest of "love songs>> and folkloric poetry (among which sailors' songs should be noted): but we will not fail to point out a meager wedding pamphlet, edited by A. Mancini (see bibl.) containing six love songs and six lullabies in the Greek-Byzantine dialect of Greece in Terra d'Otranto. We will not touch, even in passing, on the question of the glottological and folkloric angle of view (the reader will see listed in the bibliography some interesting operettas on the subject): but allow us to manifest, in this regard, our purely aesthetic interest, if they are beautiful things, of a singular beauty, which has but little connection, even of content alone, with the surrounding poetry: just as we shall see for the Grecanici songs of Roghudi in Calabria. Let us not leave the aesthetic sphere, let us not make deductions. (46)...

(46) Gigli in his pamphlet (see bibl.) observes, "We like to note first of all how the Greek folk literature of this province has a physiognomy all its own, which distinguishes it clearly from the Italian folk literature." Moreover, the reader should take note, as of a curious fact, or at least for the curious, of the strange coincidence between two Greek songs from two towns, Martano, here in Salento, and Bova, in Calabria, separated from the entire alloglotta and roadless south, and with no contact whatsoever between them for centuries: the song of Martano (collected by Gigli) says: "C' isela na' mo fsiddo apu' tturtea, / Na so'mbo ec' es to petto sa' gherai, / Na su pizzulisu òlo citto crea, /Su na calèfsi i hera na me piài! " (And I wish I were flea from these parts, so that I would enter your chest like a falcon, so that all that flesh would pinch you, you would lower your hand to catch me). While Bova's (collected by Mandatari: see bibl.), "Caspéddha, po' ciumàse manahi? /Manabò ciumúne ciòla egò. / Na spiddho na su mbei ossu to afti, /C'ena addho na mbei pu thelo ego;/ Na su dangài addhonè tundo vizzì, / Ce t'addho, abbucàtu, to affalò: Asce sprihada na su vjéi i spihì, /Ti meddhi n'artis eci p'ummon ego." (Girl, how do you sleep alone? Alone I sleep there too. One flea goes inside your ear, and another where I want it. Let another bite you that breast, and the other below, your navel. May cold come out of your soul, for you did not come there where I was)."

On the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's birth, the Notte della Taranta Foundation deemed it fitting to pay homage to the researcher, poet, writer, director, anthologist, drawing from his Canzoniere Italiano. The Orchestra Popolare Notte della Taranta and master concertmaster Dardust chose, from the Puglie section, three songs: one from Alberona in the province of Foggia, Piangi, misera mia, che so soldato; one from the Gargano, Vurria salì 'ncil' a se putess; and one in Terra d'Otranto grico, En tu' pa tos astèrio a' tton aghèra.

 

 

Alberona song Piangi, misera mia, che so soldato

 

Piangi, misera mia, che so soldato, (Weep, O poor thing, that I am a soldier,)

Piangi la libertà c'aggio perduto! (Weep for the freedom I have lost!)

Pe tre anni a servì so ubliato, (For three years to serve I am obliged,)

I seek mercy and find no one to help me. (I seek mercy and find no one to help me.)

Di notte e iorno vaio sempre armato, (By night and day I always go armed,)

vini compagnio mio a dar la muta! (come my comrade to relieve me!)

While I eat pu cumpagno a lato, (While I eat with my comrade at my side)

I cry, nennella mia, that I have lost you! (I cry, my child, that I have lost you!)

 

 

 

Gargano song Vurria salì 'ncil' a se putess

 

Vurria salì 'ncil' a se putess (I'd like to go up to heaven if I could,)

pe nna scalett de tremila pass, (for a ladder of three thousand steps)

vurria ca la scaletta ce rumpess (I wish the ladder would break)

e 'mbrazz' a la nenna mij me truess. ( and in the arms of my nenna I would find myself.)

 

 

Terra d'Otranto song En tu' pa tos astèrio a' tton aghèra

 

En tu' pa tos astèrio a' tton aghèra (I didn't tell the stars in the sky)

'de tu èliu, pu ppa prama canonì: (nor to the sun that everything sees:)

to noma tto cratenno essu 'ss emèna, (I keep the name within me)

ce manehà i cardìa-mmu tto torì. (And my heart alone sees it).

Ma pan astèri t'asterìu cuntèi (But every star to the star tells)

'es all hrusò-mmu mea 'ss to scotinò, (Of my great treasure in the dark)

ce iglio, pu crivinnete, mo' lèi, (And the sun, which hides, tells me,)

milonta m'o fengàri-mmu calò. (speaking to the moon my beautiful).

Ta fidda o lèun tos fiùri, travutonta (The leaves tell it to the flowers,)

'ss tin talassa, pu pane tta nerà; (singing to the sea, where the waters go;)

ce ta puddìa mu lèune travutonta: (and the birds tell me by singing:)

mattese na 'capisi mia forà. (learned to love once).

En tu 'pa mai to noma to glicèo, (I did not say mail the sweet name,)

ce ghì ce aghèra mu lèune fonerà; (and heaven and earth tell me openly:)

a' mea 'ss tus fiùru miristù pu steo, (amidst the fragrant flowers where I stand,)

oticanè mu lèi: s'agapà. (He tells me everything: he loves you!).

 

Bibliographical Note

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Canzoniere italiano, Anthology of popular poetry, preface by Alberto Maria Cirese; Garzanti, Milan, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

STAGE LUMINARIES SCENOGRAPHY

Impressive is the ferrous steel structure that reaches a height of 17 meters for this edition. The stage on which the artists will perform is 33 meters long and 19 meters wide. Big numbers for the production of the concertone and for the realization not only of the structure, but also for the videoled set-up: 200sqm. distributed between the set and the audience and managed by 2 media servers and 1 video director, all with 4k resolution.

Suggestions of colors and lights on the stage also with the luminaries made by Mariano Light: 600sqm of lights and 38 thousand LEDs that will compose a unique and extraordinary frame around a very special picture. A "space" journey that will ideally furrow the perspective galleries of the luminarias that animate the patronal festivals of Salento. Predominant colors on stage: white and small blue hints. The set design is by Marco Calzavara

SALENTINE COMPANIES FOR THE LOOK

It is Rosanna Calcagnile, founder of Salento's first design academy in Lecce in 1984, who signed the dresses of Consuelo Alfieri, Alessandra Caiulo, Stefania Morciano and Enza Pagliara. The costume designer worked with Santa Scioscio, lecturer in design, and Dolores Mauro, lecturer in "Alta Moda sartoriale" technique, to make the outfits for the female voices. For Rosanna Calcagnile, "The "Notte della Taranta" project, after a necessary dialogue with the female artists, intends to express, through an accurate analysis of material research, those aesthetic values of craftsmanship and design in full respect of the body in order to give the final product, without mortifying its wearability and gesture in the context of the chosen spaces, that new value of uniqueness."

The singers of the Popular Orchestra will wear the jewelry made by Gianni De Benedittis for Futuro Remoto all silver and gold pieces, designed in 3D and handmade with the technique of microfusion and pressing form, with experimental interventions of ethical silver and gold, respecting the principle of sustainability. "The jewelry I have chosen for the Notte della Taranta," De Benedittis explains, "is inspired by myth, which has always accompanied music in all its expressions: not only as tale and legend, but also as invention, construction and journey of renewed knowledge, for the recovery of those distant roots that make the rhythm of the heart beat.

Completing the image and look of the artists are the hairstyles and make-up by Officina Paar, which for the third consecutive year is an official partner for La Notte della Taranta. For the Corps de Ballet, they opted for a contamination of styles, from the nude look to the classic Make-up glow, highlighting the mouth with a dark red lipstick. The hairlook, on the other hand, will have a very natural effect, with a double texture, wet effect on the top and maximum freedom of movement and expression on the lengths. For the voices of the Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta, on the other hand, the style will be clean and essential with details that will characterize and personalize everything and some " surprise" effects. Here is the busy staff for the long Notte della Taranta. Make-up Artis: Valentina Pagano, Chiara Longo, Deborah Andretta, Noemi Vetrugno. Hair stylists: Roberta Apos, Carla Marti, Nico Anglani, Angela Loparco, Elisa Santoro, Renata Diella, Sabrina Giussani, Stefano Spinetta, Pasquale Santantonio.

The choice of costumes for the Corps de Ballet is by choreographer Irma di Paola and coordination by Vinicio Attanasi, who also made the original hats that are the protagonists of the choreographic picture on the theme of Fuecu, the powerful pizzica written by Daniele Durante to celebrate the Focàra of Novoli.


CULTURAL ECOLOGY: THE OLIVE TREES OF TARANTA PARK IS BORN

The Parco Ulivi della Taranta is born, an expanse of 1,500 new trees that will be planted thanks to the adoption of olive trees by the artists and the audience that invades the squares of the Itinerant Festival every year to the rhythm of pizzica.

A project conceived by the Notte della Taranta Foundation in collaboration with Olivami, the nonprofit association that allows the adoption of an olive tree to help reforest the Xylella-affected Salento. A new form of sustainable and participatory olive growing that offers the opportunity for everyone to remotely adopt one or more olive trees, obtaining an annual supply of Evo oil with certified provenance and quality. For every olive tree that is adopted, Olivami & Taranta plants a new generation olive tree.

Through the adoption of the first 100 olive trees, Fondazione La Notte della Taranta has created the first park in Carpignano Salentino that can be visited at any time of the year, and is easily recognizable thanks to the sign and name plates hung on the trees and bearing the names of the Festival and Concertone artists. The initiative aims to contribute in the long run to offsetting CO2 emissions.

The "Taranta Park" project will feature the planting of a symbolic tree in each of the 12 municipalities of Salento's Grecìa region. Through the QR code, a green path will open that will lead visitors into the park, on a vast plot of land in Carpignano salentino, where young olive trees will restore the landscape line destroyed by the Xylella bacteria to Salento.

Olivami is an association registered with RUNTS (single national third sector register) committed to the reforestation of the Salento countryside destroyed by Xyella. By promoting the adoption of olive trees, the Olivami association enables companies, organizations and institutions to contribute to the rebirth of olive growing in Salento by financing the planting of new olive trees to replace those affected by Xylella.

Olivami is an association registered with RUNTS (single national third sector register) committed to the reforestation of the Salento countryside destroyed by Xyella. Through promoting the adoption of olive trees, the Olivami association enables companies, organizations and institutions to contribute to the rebirth of olive growing in Salento by financing the planting of new olive trees to replace those affected by Xylella. For every olive tree that is adopted, Olivami plants a new generation of olive trees tolerant to the Xylella fastidiosa bacteria. The olive trees will be led by farmers who have decided to join the project by planting new olive trees.

You can make the adoption directly from the association's website www.olivami.com, selecting the quantity and species of trees you want to adopt. Immediately after adoption you will receive a confirmation e-mail with the adoption certificate.

 

PRECONCERTON August 27, 2022 from 8:30 to 10 p.m.

The Taranters will open the Pre-concert on Saturday, August 27 at 8:30 pm. After the conclusion of the MATRIA project carried out by the Apulia Region and the La Notte della Taranta Foundation, the students of the Salvatore Trinchese High Secondary Education Institute in Martano will take the stage to perform their repertoire in the Greek language. The Taranters are: Davide Terracciano, Emanuele Castrignanò, Luca Sergio on tambourines; Daniele Palumbo on percussion; Luca Aprile, Francesco Lefonso, Gaetano Rescio, acoustic guitars; Gianluigi Marcianò, electric guitar; Alessandro Sergio, clarinet and sax; Domenico Pellegrino, electronic keyboard; Francesca Cezza, Matilde Allegretti, Antonio Cannazza, solo voices; Giacinta Calò, Letizia Calò, Francesca Arcuti, Gilda Vacca, Valentina De Campi, voices; Aurora Curlante, Francesca Pasca, Helena Corlianò, Laura Castrignanò, Paolo Miceli, dancersǝ.

Après La Classe

It will be Après La Classe with their energy who will be the protagonists of the Pre-concert. The band, originally from Aradeo, in the province of Lecce, is composed of Cesko (vocals, synth, guitars), Puccia (vocals, accordion, keyboards), Combass (bass, backing vocals), joined by Gianmarco Serra, Alex Ricci and Paco Carrieri. After years of playing on stages between Italy and the rest of the world, they have changed their sound over time to a kind of Dub-Rock with Electro-Rock contaminations. The band also wrote and sang songs in French, the singer's native language.

On the mega stage in Melpignano, Après La Classe will drag the audience with their hit songs and those from their latest record Santa Marilena in which they collaborated with Didy, DJ Gruff, Manu Chau,Piotta, The Yorker, Alborosie.

AQUEDOTTO PUGLIESE

The Notte della Taranta is becoming more and more sustainable, thanks to Acquedotto Pugliese (AQP), which again this year is alongside the Foundation in bringing about a change in environmental awareness in which music, artists, the audience and the communities, which host and experience the events, are the protagonists of change. In fact, 8 stations, 7 in the Concertone audience area and 1 backstage, will be installed for public water supply. "An event under the banner of culture and sustainability, to enhance," explains Tina De Francesco, AQP board member, "an artistic encounter full of life, that of music and water. During the dress rehearsal on August 26 and the big concert on August 27, Acquedotto Pugliese will distribute tap water in the concert area and in the area reserved for guests, using dispensers with biodegradable disposable cups. Involving such a large audience in one of the most significant events on popular culture in Europe will also allow to carry on the awareness campaign on the good practice of consuming tap water, which ensures well-being for the person and also for the environment, thanks to the reduction of material and energy use. Water is a common good, a shared value, a precious resource and using it in the best way," the councilwoman concludes, "is everyone's responsibility.

ELECTRIC CARS

For the mobility of the artists of the Notte della Taranta, the De Mariani Group has provided a fleet of 10 Mercedes cars. The fleet is composed as follows: a CLA 250 and GLA 250 passenger car with which the driver can choose to travel full eletric, taking advantage of the battery charge; 2 CLS 300 D (diesel with electric motor combined); and two GLC 300E passenger cars, cars that can safely transit the ZTL if one chooses to drive fully electric. Also given are two models that represent an extraordinary innovation; GLE 350 Coupe; electric and diesel engine with great power combined with 4matic all-wheel drive and finally 2 GLB 200D 4 Matic cars. All cars depicted the logo of La Notte della Taranta. The engine of these cars provided by DMJ is assisted if necessary by the electric motor so as to achieve performance that combines driving pleasure and comfort with greatly reduced fuel consumption and emissions.

SECURITY

An operations room is set up inside the former Augustinian convent where the Police Forces, will ensure the smooth running of the event with the help of a sophisticated video surveillance system dedicated and connected to the municipal video surveillance system. More than 200 FFOO officers and 300 Civil Defense personnel (with the provincial Civil Defense Coordination) and volunteer service, who will man the accesses to the event area near the gates. Five fire brigade stations will also be operational.

It is Fi.Fa. Security Network, a leading Marche-based company in the field of integrated security, a point of reference for the surveillance and management of large events nationwide, will guarantee the activities necessary for the safe conduct of the La Notte della Taranta event. More than 100 operators in the area are employed throughout the period of the event in the various services: control and setting up of performance areas, fire control, management of public entry and exit flows, access control and garrisoning of sensitive areas and accompanying artists. Also for the evening of the Concertone, Fi.Fa. will guarantee access to restricted areas.

The 118 health plan will be prepared to deal with any rescue emergencies within the La Notte della Taranta event. About 200 volunteers will be employed between 118 and the Italian Red Cross. In the area of the "Health Camp" of about 400 square meters with a total of 26 beds two of which are monitored for the most serious cases (red codes), there will be 4 pneumatic tents of the Italian Red Cross (green hospitalizations) - 1 station for small surgery, 1 triage area tent- 1 pneumatic tent for red codes- 1 118 ambulance, 1 ALS 118 ambulance, 2 CRI ambulances . There will be 7 peripheral ambulance stations.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kXxkGDmm8K4g9Rq1oPMpys1di61La_zl?usp=sharing  video

 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/dt6m21d596fvb3od151y4/h?dl=0&rlkey=qfvmw0zi4usx1ljjm2cjssebf    photo conference

MELPIGNANO MEGA STAGE READY

Construction work has been completed on the mega stage in Melpignano on which, on August 27, guest artists and the Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta directed by maestro Dardust will perform at the 25th edition of La Notte della Taranta. An important date that is celebrated with the audience returning once again to the square of the Ex Convento degli Agostiniani where the imposing 17-meter high ferrous steel structure has been set up. The stage on which the artists will perform is 33m x19.
Big numbers for the production of the big concert and for the realization not only of the structure, but also for the videoled set-up: 200sqm. distributed between stage and audience and managed by 2 media servers and 1 video director, all with 4k resolution. The high technology with the exhibitions of lights and shots will make the longest and most awaited night of the summer unique.

Suggestions of colors and lights on the stage also with the illuminations made by Mariano Light: 600sqm of lights and 38 thousand LEDs that will compose a unique and extraordinary frame around a very special picture. A journey that starts from tradition and touches the notes and futuristic nuances of electronics also through a symbol of the tradition of Salento festivals: the luminarias. A "space" journey that will ideally furrow the perspective galleries of the luminarias that animate the patronal festivals of Salento. Predominant colors on stage: white and small blue hints. On this project signed by Mariano Light 12 people worked for 15 days.

And in edition No. 25 there is a novelty, the visual project "W il cielo, il mare, la terra," developed by Galattico with the guidance of Mauro Bubbico, coordination Filippo Rossi and Selene Sanua. Visual is composed of a complex system of visual languages: illustration, pattern, photography and cinema comment and amplify what is happening on the stage, guide the audience to discover the sense of the marvelous, immerse them in a magical atmosphere, rediscovering festive rituals and symbolism originally linked to production cycles that have now disappeared, taking on new meanings and functions or amplifying some latent and secondary ones. The images, of different nature and origin, are animated, re-combined with each other in harmony with the other performance materials. The scenes are organized to represent the salient moments of the story told, and the images provide support for the music and background for the dance troupe. The main intent is to guide the audience to rediscover the sense of festivity, to invite them to have a totalizing experience of reality in which, through sound, images, colors, words and the body, the creative power of nature is affirmed and the founding events of the cosmos and life are celebrated.

NOTTE DELLA TARANTA 25 - PRESS CONFERENCE

August 26 - 10:30 a.m. - Melpignano (Le)

 

It will be presented tomorrow, August 26, in the halls of Palazzo Marchesale in Melpignano (Le), the press conference presenting the 25th edition of the Notte della Taranta Concertone.

The concertmaster DARDUST and the guest artists of the Concertone, Foundation President Massimo Manera, Puglia Region President Michele Emiliano, Puglia Promozione Director General Luca Scandale, and Melpignano Mayor Valentina Avantaggiato will participate.

 

 

ACCREDITS

Starting at 10:00 a.m. it will be possible to pick up passes for access to the Concertone with related car passes at Palazzo Marchesale in Via Roma in Melpignano (Le).

All passes that will not be collected will be available from late afternoon at the reception of the Hotel Tiziano in Lecce.

ROADWAYS AND TRAINS

Prepared the traffic plan for the final Concertone "La Notte della Taranta," now in its 25th edition.

The buses that will reach the Greek town, will necessarily have to access Melpignano in a southerly direction. A special luminous signboard has been installed on the highway 16 Lecce-Maglie indicating the route the buses will have to follow to access the reserved area. Since the only access allowed is southbound, buses arriving from Lecce near the Cursi interchange will have to turn around. Disabled parking has been identified on Via Salento near the Concertone stage. The camper area has been placed near the sports field. It is accessed through the industrial area. A ban on vehicular traffic is planned for the entire day of Aug. 27 from early morning until the end of the event.

Those arriving from the SS16 will have to use the parking lots set up in the industrial zone to reach the show area only through Salento Street and Annunziata Street.

HERE IS HEALTH PLAN - 26-BED FIELD HOSPITAL

The 118 health plan has been prepared to deal with possible rescue emergencies within the La Notte della Taranta event.  About 200 volunteers will be employed between 118 and the Italian Red Cross.

In the area of the "Health Camp" of about 400 square meters with a total of 26 beds two of which are monitored for the most serious cases (red codes), there will be 4 pneumatic tents of the Italian Red Cross (green hospitalizations)- 1 station for small surgery, 1 triage area tent- 1 pneumatic tent for red codes- 1 ambulance of the 118 that will be stationed on the road section at the Health Camp), 1 ALS 118 ambulance that will be stationed on the road section, at the Health Camp), 2 CRI ambulances that will be stationed on the road section, at the Health Camp) and various logistics vehicles (trolleys, 118 disaster module, 118 pickup truck, etc.  which will be located in the dirt site identified at the side opposite the Sanitarian Camp). There will also be a refreshment tent (outside the Sanitarian perimeter, street level) and visitors' boxes.

There will be 7 peripheral ambulance stations that will be stationed: - SOUTH-EAST Station - parking lot/industrial area (near the access traffic circle from the SS. 16) - west side of the Stage - guest area - east side of the Stage - AGIP/ENI SS. 16 Station (arrival/departure South-East Bus) - Central area corridor of the Audience area (free area separation corridor). Personnel employed to ensure emergency rescue will also be ready in the management of maxi emergencies in coordination with the 118 Operations Center.

SALENTINE COMPANIES FOR THE 2022 LOOK

Excellence from Salento to enhance the look that the Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta will bring to the stage at the August 27 Concertone in Melpignano. Historic and renowned companies that have always operated in the area and invested in this land and its resources will contribute to the realization of the event.

The female voices of the Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta will wear outfits created ad hoc by costume designer Rosanna Calcagnile, founder of the first Salento design academy in Lecce in 1984. The Calcagnile Academy has trained thousands of designers who work today in major brands. Firmly believing that the academy is the place where ideas are dressed and young people realize their dreams, costume designer Rosanna Calcagnile is working together with her staff Santa Scioscio, professor of design, and Dolores Mauro, professor of "Alta Moda sartoriale" technique, to create the outfits for the five female voices. "The project "Notte della Taranta" after a necessary dialogue with the female artists, intends to express through an accurate analysis of material research those aesthetic values of craftsmanship and design in full respect of the body to give the final product without mortifying the wearability and gesture in the context of the chosen spaces, that new value of uniqueness.I am fully convinced that Fashion is social and cultural commitment, an inseparable combination for me. The Academy I founded in 1984 is a "strategic partner " of the philosophy degree course, has a pact of collaboration with the Polobibliomuseale Museo Castromediano Lecce , in partnership with the Niksic Museum and in residence with the project "All the colors of Montenegro," explains the costume designer.

On the Melpignano stage come the Futuro Remoto creations that bewitched Ferzan Opzetek. Even Madame who will be the presenter of the event together with Gino Castaldo who we will see on Rai 1 on September 1, when La Notte della Taranta will be televised, will wear the jewelry made by Gianni De Benedittis. The creations that the designer thought up for the singers of the 25th edition of La Notte della Taranta to be held in Melpignano, Saturday, August 27, 2022, are all silver and gold pieces, designed in 3D and handmade using the technique of microcasting and pressing form, with experimental interventions of ethical silver and gold, respecting the principle of sustainability. "The jewelry I have chosen for the Notte della Taranta," De Benedittis explains, "is inspired by myth, which has always accompanied music in all its expressions: not only as tale and legend, but also as invention, construction and journey of renewed knowledge, for the recovery of those distant roots that make the heart beat. Ancient leaf motifs, in the embossed decorations of the tall rigid bracelets, return on the small modules of the imposing breastplates; just as inveterate symbols of shells and crowns mark the style of earrings and rings." A blatant reference to the classical are the micro-sculptures of the pendants, depicting the myths that have always made us dream, such as the winged horse of Pegasus that, leapt out of the neck of the gòrgon Medusa, by the irony of Gianni De Benedittis' creative fate, returns to the necks of the most vain women; or the god Hermes, messenger of the gods who, with his wings at his feet, will hopefully return to bring us the most eagerly awaited news quickly, and perhaps turn everything he touches into gold.

Complementing the image and look of the artists are the hairstyles and make-up by Officina Paar, which for the third year in a row is an official partner for La Notte della Taranta.

8 Hair stylists and 4 Makeup-Artists , coming from all over Puglia, will work together with directors and the choreographer to represent at their best also the paintings and choreographies signed by Irma Di Paola. For the Corps de Ballet, they opted for a contamination of styles, from the nude look to the classic Make-up glow, highlighting the mouth with a dark red lipstick.

The hairlook, on the other hand, will have a very natural effect, with a double texture, wet effect on the top and maximum freedom of movement and expression on the lengths.

For the voices of the Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta on the other hand, the style will definitely be clean and essential with details that will characterize and personalize everything and some " surprise" effects. Here is the busy staff for the long Notte della Taranta. Make-up Artis: Valentina Pagano, Chiara Longo, Deborah Andreatta, Noemi Vetrugno. Hair stylists: Roberta Apos, Carla Marti, Nico Anglani, Angela Loparco, Elisa Santoro, Renato Diella, Sabrina Giussani, Stefano Spinetta.

The choice of costumes for the Corps de Ballet is by choreographer Irma di Paola and coordination by Vinicio Attanasi, who also made the original hats that are the protagonists of the choreographic picture on the theme of Fuecu, the powerful pizzica written by Daniele Durante to celebrate the Focàra of Novoli.

 

TO DARDUST THE TITLE OF MÀSTORA

The Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina confers for the first time to the maestro concertatore of the 2022 edition the title of Màstora master of the arts in griko

 

To Dardust maestro concertatore of the twenty-fifth edition of the Notte della Taranta, which will take place on August 27 in Melpignano, the Union of Municipalities of the Grecìa Salentina confers the title of "Màstora," a term that in Griko means "master" (of arts and knowledge).


Grecìa Salentina has been characterized in recent decades for focusing on culture, history, traditions, roots and griko identity as a driver of growth for the territory.
Among the many cultural initiatives that are organized in the Grecía Salentina, Notte della Taranta is certainly the cultural project that has been able to give wide resonance and visibility to the municipalities of the Hellenic Salentine area, succeeding in spreading and popularizing grika culture in Italy and abroad.


With this in mind, the maestro concertatore of each edition of the Notte della Taranta, together with the musicians he coordinates and directs, effectively assumes the important role of ambassador of the grika culture of the Grecìa Salentina in Italy and around the world.


"For this reason," declares Roberto Casaluci Mayor of Castrignano dei Greci and President of the Union of Municipalities of the Grecìa Salentina, "with the Mayors of the Union we thought of bestowing on the master concertmaster Dardust the symbolic recognition of the title of "Màstora," which is a Griko term used to indicate the important function performed by a 'master' in the arts or knowledge. With this gesture we want to highlight, once again, how knowledge, root culture and
above all, contamination with other experiences, must be the pillars on which to rest the social and economic regeneration of our small villages."
On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 in Melpignano, the headquarters of the Notte della Taranta Foundation, the maestro concertmaster Dardust, as a symbol of the title of "Màstora," received a typical ceramic plate made and donated especially for the occasion by the company "Nuova Colì" of Cutrofiano (Le).

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AUGUST 25 - MARTANO - LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

20,30

Closing Festival:

Meeting with Festival artistic director Luigi Chiriatti and Martano Mayor Fabio Tarantino

 

21:00

TARANTERS

To follow.

NUI...NISCIUNU

ARMONIA GRECA

 

STELLA GRANDE.

 

On August 25, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta" arrives in Martano for its final stage. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The Tradition of the New," Italy's largest traveling festival has crossed as many as 21 towns in Salento since Aug. 4, waiting for the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, in the midst of rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema of Calimera together with the Orchestra della Notte della Taranta.

Before the start of the last concerts of the final stage of the traveling festival, at 8:30 p.m. at Largo Primo Maggio, a meeting will be held with Festival artistic director Luigi Chiriatti and Martano Mayor Fabio Tarantino to take stock of the 21 stages of the festival, which involved 400 artists with 43 pizzica concerts attracting thousands of people, including tourists and Salento residents, to the towns. Immediately afterwards, again on the stage set up in Largo Primo Maggio, as part of the MATRIA project carried out by the Apulia Region, the La Notte della Taranta Foundation oversaw the realization of initiatives aimed at the minorities of Salento's Grecìa region and in collaboration with the Popular Orchestra and the Taranta Dance Corps, produced the show TARANTERS, staged at 9 p.m., with the Salvatore Trinchese High Secondary Education Institute of Martano and with the support of the 12 municipalities of the Union of Salento's Grecìa: Calimera, Carpignano salentino, Castrignano de Greci, Corigliano d'Otranto, Cutrofiano, Martano, Martignano, Melpignano, Sogliano Cavour, Soleto, Sternatia, Zollino. Taranters are student ambassadors of the "language of the affections," the language of their local area, who, thanks to MATRIA, have developed knowledge and awareness of the value of GRICO, managing to transfer the beauty of their cultural heritage to a wider audience. The classes involved initiated a research phase on anonymous or authored lyrics of folk songs in Grico and pizzica dance. The study focused not only on the lyrics of the songs in grico but on their dissemination through modern interpretations. The students' choice fell on: Aremu, Calinitta, Òriamu Pisulina.

The traditional texts will be re-proposed in the original student-written version with the coordination of Professor Mauro Palumbo and in collaboration with Popular Orchestra members Gianluca Longo (mandola), Roberto Chiga (tambourine), Stefania Morciano (singing), with the extraordinary participation of rapper Marmo, pseudonym of Stefano Galiotta, a former student of the Trinchese Institute. The dance section, coordinated by choreographer Mattia Politi and dancer Mihaela Coluccia, will offer three different pictures inspired by the theme of the chosen songs that starting from the traditional pizzica range in modern style.

The TARANTERS are: Davide Terracciano, Emanuele Castrignanò, Luca Sergio on tambourines; Daniele Palumbo on percussion; Luca Aprile, Francesco Lefonso, Gaetano Rescio, acoustic guitars; Gianluigi Marcianò, electric guitar; Alessandro Sergio, clarinet and sax; Domenico Pellegrino, electronic keyboard; Francesca Cezza, Matilde Allegretti, Antonio Cannazza, solo voices; Giacinta Calò, Letizia Calò, Francesca Arcuti, Gilda Vacca, Valentina De Campi, voices; Aurora Curlante, Francesca Pasca, Helena Corlianò, Laura Castrignanò, Paolo Miceli, dancer.

 

Next up is Nui... Nisciunu, a group of pizzica and Salento folk songs founded in Aradeo in 1999 and since then has been working hard with care, research and passion to carry on the tradition of Salento music. Composing the group are: Giuliano Conte, voice and tambourine; Leandro Guido, voice and guitar; Eleonora De Benedetto, voice; Alessia Liaci, voice; Nico Imboldi, accordion; Mirko Matteo, tambourine; Sarah Monteduro, violin.

The music continues with the musical group Armonia Greca (Ελληνική Αρμονία), is a musical group of the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Center of the Sacred City of Messolonghi, "Nea Koinè." Founded in 2015, it consists of 10 professionals (musicians and singers) and 10 dancers and is directed by the Artistic Director of the "Nea Koinè" Cultural Center, Mo Christos Vlachoyiannis. The repertoire of Greek Harmony, in addition to songs in Greek and in the Salento dialect, consists of music, songs and dances by internationally renowned Greek authors (Theodoràkis, Xarhàkos, Hatzidàkis, Markopoulos), as well as religious songs of the Greek Orthodox Church and songs of the "rembètiko" (Asia Minor) musical style. The elements of the group participating in the Festival are: Chrìstos Vlachogiannis, maestro; Dimitrios Foliàs, bass and guitar; Ioannis Bellos, bouzouki; Evangelos Rodìtis, percussion; Konstantinos Patsialos, pianola; Andreas Chasiòtis, trumpet; Alessandra Chasiòti, clarinet; Lef Dakalakis, pianola and voice; Dimitrios Karavasìlis, dancer; Panagiota Kaponi, dancer; Georgio Skouras, dancer; Nìki Karanìka, dancer; Eugenia Grèntzelou, Katerini Kostì, Ermina Taratsà, Eleni Pismopoulou - voices.

 

Closing the evening was the long-awaited performance by Stella Grande is a well-established artistic and musical reality, she has won a big bet, masterfully combining a folk tradition with current and passionate poetry. The tools used by the singer, are a great rhythmic and emotional involvement, a marked theatricality, an intense interpretation. Music of tradition but not only, lyrics of tradition but not only. Stella Grande is an artist who looks around, who knows the past, the importance of individual and collective memory and knows that it must be preserved, remembered, but in the present, in everyday reality, and not as a nostalgic memory. With Stella Grande, on stage: Elio Coriano, voice; Ylenia Giaffreda, voice, violin; Marco Giaffreda, voice, bass; Walter Fracella, voice, keyboard; Edoardo Baglivo, voice guitar; Zaira Giangreco, tambourine; Silvia Calò, tambourine; Maria Lucia Chirivì, dance.

 

 

FREE ENTRANCE.

 

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Concertone: Aug. 27 in Melpignano - FREE ADMISSION

 

The Itinerant Festival is a project of the Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

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