{"id":10150,"date":"2017-07-23T23:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2017-07-23T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T21:34:35","slug":"the-gecko-paranza-folk-dances-of-southern-italy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/10150\/news\/la-paranza-del-geco-danze-popolari-del-sud-italia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"{:en}LA PARANZA DEL GECO - POPULAR DANCES OF SOUTH ITALY{:}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{:en}<strong>PRESS RELEASE (07\/21\/2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, July 23<\/strong>, a <strong>Loano<\/strong>, folk dances will be the stars of the review <strong>\u201cDreams Festival\u201d<\/strong>, promoted by the\u2019<strong>Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano<\/strong>\u00a0and edited by <strong>Event Size<\/strong>, under the artistic direction of<strong>\u00a0Ivan Fabio Perna<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At <strong>21.30<\/strong>, in the summer arena<strong> Prince's Garden<\/strong>,<strong> Simone Campa and<\/strong> <strong>The Gecko's Paranza<\/strong> will be the performers of the concert-show of traditional Southern Italian music, songs and dances.<\/p>\n<p>The performance, charged with vital energy, sees the intertwining of musicians, singers and dancers who will create a true musical feast.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by original folk instruments, the group's musicians will lead the audience to indulge in the pleasant euphoria of the fast-paced rhythms of the most beautiful traditional tarantellas, alternating with original songs, in a fascinating journey through Puglia, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria and Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>The program will range from the whirling and wild <strong><em>pizzica pizzica<\/em> Salentine, <\/strong>ancient therapeutic dance used to treat the \u201ctarantati,\u201d to the <strong><em>tammurriate<\/em><\/strong> Vesuvius, from the <strong><em>sonu a ballo<\/em><\/strong> aspromontano to the numerous tarantellas of Calabria, from the tarantellas of Gargano, Montemarano, and Irpinia to the sounds of Pollino and Lucania.<\/p>\n<p>The instruments used by the musicians on stage are those of the tradition: accordion and diatonic accordions, violin, mandolin, mandola, classical guitars, battenti guitars and <em>fullback<\/em> (smaller model of a beating guitar), <em>friscaletti <\/em>e <em>whistles <\/em>namely traditional simple and double reed flutes, Calabrian lyre, paru and key bagpipes, ciaramelle and pipite, frame drums, marranzani, putip\u00f9, scetavajasse, triccaballacche.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free.{:}<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{:en} PRESS RELEASE (07\/21\/2017) On Sunday, July 23, at Loano, folk dances will be the stars of the \u201cDreams Festival,\u201d promoted by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and curated by Dimensione...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}