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1st Day Thursday, 18.08.2016
19.00 Corso Paolo Agiata – the”Cho-Shui-River Art Dance Ensemble” (Taiwan) will parade and give a short performance
21.30 Piazza Umberto I A seggia by the Tecne dance company, to the live music of Francesca Incudine and Carmelo Colajanni, choreography by Alosha Giuseppe Marino and Cynna.
Brief description: A seggia takes you on a journey, where fantasy, complexity, as well as, simplicity fuse with the contamination of various arts: urban-classical-contemporaty dance, physical theatre and acrobatics. Francesca Incudines music project iettavuci, written and sung in Sicilian, manifests the need to be heard, say something of importance, raise your voice: iettavuci in Sicilian denotes the urgency of comunication, but also the need for ones words to be heard above the background noise, tell a different story, call the attention of others, leave a mark, and thus Francesca tells of her feminine universe that is both delicate and dreamy.
2nd Day Friday, 19.08.2016
19.00 Corso Paolo Agiata “Compania Danza Tierra Mestiza” (Mexico) will parade and give a short performance
20.30 Piazza Umberto I Cucine dal mondo a stand with dishes from Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Palestine, the Czech Repubblic.
21.30/3.00 Piazza Umberto I Concert #ControDanza with I Beddi, the Pupi di Surfaro an extraordinary performance by Jali Diabate, and the Die Freedes
Brief description: after the great success of last years Cuisine from all over the World, it returns. This year it is with great pleasure that we will be hosting a team of wonderful cooks who will be preparing dishes from Senegal, Palestine, the Czech Republic and the Ivory Coast. It is advisable to book before hand. The gastronomic itinerary costs 10.
For information and booking call: 3299268411 (Mariele) LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/929189180536243/
#CONTRODANZA: This year on the stage in P.zza Umberto I at 21,30 a concert by I Beddi, Pupi di Surfaru with the participation of Jali Diabate and the Die Freedes!!!!
The name #CONTRODANZA comes from a play on words. It is a type of dance which has been discovered and danced by many. It is a transgenerational way of spending time together, while discovering your roots at the same time.
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/929455830509723/
3rd Day Saturday, 20.08.2016
19.00 – Corso Paolo Agliata a parade and performance by the hosted groups (Taiwan e Messico)
21:30 – Piazza Domina «Serenata a’ zita»
23:45/3.00 – Piazza Finocchiaro Aprile Festa A bballu with the Matrioske
Brief description: «Serenata a’ zita» revokes the courting rights that each and every lover dedicated to his love through romantic songs and the interpretation of the daily life of times gone by. Old songs and invocations, sayings and proverbs used by the peasants and farmers from the past provide the setting for a show of music, song and theatre which commemorates the centennial anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Pitrè, the renowned Palermitan demologist by looking at Sicilian beliefs and superstitions! On the eve of the revocation of the Historic Nuptual Procession and the Pantomime Dance of the Ribbons thanks to the colllaboration of the Ass. Ballo Pantomima della Cordella, the Ass. Teatro della Rabba and the Ass. culturale Fuori di Testa!
LINK EVENTO: https://www.facebook.com/events/1763295497288062/
FESTA A BBALLU with the Matrioske: from the tarantelle to the bourrée, from dancing in a circle to the French mazurka, from the pizzica to Scottish dancing, from the tammurriata to ….. The Matrioske will have us up and doing Eurpean folk dancing
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/1035178319869082/?active_tab=highlights
4th Day Sunday, 21.08.2016
11.30 Palazzo del Giglio Local authorities meet the groups
15.00 Corso Paolo Agliata Revocation of the Historic Nuptual Procession
17.00 Campo sportivo comunale Ballo Pantomima della Cordella
21.30/1.00 Teatro Pineta comunale the final evening of the XXXIII Mediterrenean International Folklore Ralley with Salvo Piparo
Brief description: RIEVOCAZIONE ANTICO CORTEO NUZIALE E BALLO PANTOMIMA DELLA CORDELLA: an annual event – not to be missed! On the first Sunday after ferragosto (mid-August bank holiday weekend) its music and colour enchants its spectators every year. The Ballo delle Cordella (dance of ribbons) a unique folk dance that has been included in the register of Incorporeal Heredity of the Sicilian Region. The tradition is over 70 years-old and has its roots in the ancient rights of the goddess Ceres. Twelve couples dance to the rhythm of a tarantella following the commands of the bastoniere,weaving the curdeddi (long coloured ribbons) around the pole and then unweaving them as they dance.
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/212478239154168/
Pagina FB: https://www.facebook.com/Ballo-Pantomima-della-Cordella-1735034073403636/?fref=ts
The final evening of the XXXIII MEDITERRANEAN INTERNATIONAL FOLK RALLEY: the hosted folk groups will perform highlighting their art, traditions and culture through dance on the stage of the Teatro Pineta Comunale. The evening promises a number of surprises. This year the evening will be hosted by Salvo Piparo.
5th Day Monday, 22.08.2016
11.00 Corso Paolo Agliata the Ralley of Sicilian Folk Music
11.00/1300 Pineta Comunale: Theory and pratical workshop on traditional dance with Pino Biondo
11.00/13.00 Pineta Comunale: Workshop on the tamurriata using a tamburo organized by Raffaella Tirelli
15.30/17.30 Pineta Comunale Theory and pratical workshop on traditional dance with Pino Biondo
21.30/1.00 Piazza Finocchiaro Aprile Pupi Siciliani Le farse di Nuofriu e Virticchiu MOPS Associazione Culturale Marionettistica Siciliana (marionettes)
Brief description: Ralley of Sicilian Folk Music
On the occaision of the Festival of Folk Tradition, there will be the third edition of the Sicilian Folk Musica Ralley.
All the musicians and dancers are warmly invited to come and join us here in Petralia Sottana to meet and exchange techniques and repetoire or simply play or dance together!!
The initial meeting point for all of the musicians is at 11.00 in the square behind the Town Hall where you will be welcomed and enjoy playing together.
All of the participants in the ralley will be offered lunch and in the afternoon we will be back in the main high street to play and dance until late evening in piazza Umberto I where there will be a grandControdanza directed by maestro Bartolo Cuccì to the sound of Angelo Daddelli!
For further information: Profita Lorenzo 3284020607 – Marco Macaluso 3294410495
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/464411673766108/
WORKSHOP ON TRADIZIONAL SICILIAN DANCE with PINO BIONDO: on 22 e 23 August.
The program is as follows:
Monday 22/08/2016
from 11 to 13: theory-practical workshop
lunch break
from 15,30 to 17,30: practical workshop
Tuesday 23/08/2016
from 11 to 13: theory-practical workshop
lunch break
from 15,30 to 17,30: practical workshop
(times could be modified slightly)
Repertorio of dances:
Contaddanza;
Quattro passi di Maniace;
Lànzet Scottish (Tortorici);
Sissa (polka di Bompietro);
Ballo nuovo, Musetta polka figurata (Piemonte) (Troina);
Scotz (Aidone);
Scotis (Scicli);
Mazurka comandata o pirulè (Troina);
Scotis tacco e punta di Bompietro;
Scotis col fazzoletto (Sperlinga, Villapriolo, Troina)
For further details contact: Marco Macaluso 3294410495
LINK EVENTO: https://www.facebook.com/events/1656129958040719/
PERCORSO TRA LE SONORITA’ DEL MONTE SOMMA con Raffaella TIRELLI: pratical- theory through sound and choral work of a place that is emblemic to song and dance to the tamburo in Campania organized and held by Raffaella Tirelli.
For further details contact: 3294410495 Marco
The program is as follows:
Monday 22/08/2016
from 15,30 to 17,30
Tuesday 23/08/2016
from 11 to 13
lunch break
from 15,30 to 17,30
(times could be modified)
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/310065126050296/
PUPI SICILIANI (marionettes): Le farse di Nofriu e Virticchiu marionette show
Lopera dei pupi is the traditional Sicilian marionette theatre, created by the people for the people. Developed in the middle of the 1700s, it had an extraordinary success to the end of the 1800s when the advent of the new media, such as, cinema, then television, together with the disintergration of the social fabric of the local neighbourhoods in the towns, lost sight of public traditions. The theatre of the pupi also represented in Sicily a sort of mass literacy of the Sicilian proletariate. The farmers from hinterland farming areas, the fishermen from the coastal areas and the sub-prolotariate from the large towns and cities discovered Italian for the first time (lopera dei pupis scripts are in Italian). Only farce is performed in dialect: the Palermitan masks, the vastasi Nofriu,Virticchiu and company, were an authentic expression of the people who recognised themselves in the plays and could deride by using sarcasm the local dignitaries. Farce represented the comical and grotesque events of the Palermitan tradition, the vastasi Nofriu and Virticchiu who together with an array of bizarre characters were and still are an authentic expression of the people. The show consists of different comical episodes taken from folk stories and rewritten for the marionette theatre.
6th Day Wednesday 23.08.2016
11.00/13:00 – Pineta Comunale Theoretical-pratical traditional dance workshop with Pino Biondo
11.00/13.00 – Pineta Comunale Workshop on tammurriata on the Tamburo with Raffaella Tirelli
15.30/17.30 Pineta Comunale Theoretical-pratical traditional dance workshop with Pino Biondo
15.30/17.30 in the square next to the Comune theory-practical workshop with the Cantastorie (Singers/Storytellers)
21.30/1.00 Piazza Finocchiaro Aprile Performance by cantastorie Fortunato Sindoni and prof. Mauro Geraci
Where to stay: contact Giorgio Bellina 3272163325
FREE CAMPING: La Pineta Resort where you can sleep in the fresh air
Part of the woodlands will be dedicated to free camping: bring your camping equipment and stay for Free in one of the most beautiful spots in Petralia Sottana. Showers and toikets are also available for use. You should book your place in advance. For Info and bookings: 328 587 6813 Giuseppe – 389 423 0755 Simone
HOW TO GET HERE: This year thanks to the collaboraton of several tour operators you will be able to get to Petralia for the events on the evening of the 19th August (#CONTRODANZA) and the 21stAugust (Rievocazione dell’Antico Corteo Nuziale and Ballo Pantomima della Cordella). Particularily from Palermo, using BUS SHARING organized by LABISI EVENTI.