TRAD DANCES
"Dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry are determined over time, figurative arts and architecture in space: dance lives equally in time and space. In it creator and creation, work and artist, are one"
Curt Sachs, History of Dance
Getting closer to the pleasure and joy of dance, through songs and rhythms full of life and stories, colors and different cultures. By dancing we travel through the geography of countries and the history of societies, we travel to seek the roots of rhythm and relationship in the physical body and in movement, exercising the ability to listen to oneself, others and the group through the step, the voice and ear, developing proprioceptive abilities; rediscovering the physical-emotional communication potential of dances and sounds of traditions that culturally sacralize the community as a place of sharing. Get ready for a tiptoe journey from Southern Italy to France, from Spain to Greece, with stops in Ireland and Eastern Europe... The traditional dance courses of Arci Tavola Tonda are led by Barbara Crescimanno
TRAD MUSIC
According to what was stated by UNESCO in Paris in 1989, addressing the Governments of the member countries: «traditional and popular culture is part of the universal heritage of humanity, [it] is a powerful means of bringing different peoples and social groups closer together and of affirming their cultural identity».
TRAD DANCES
"Dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry are determined over time, figurative arts and architecture in space: dance lives equally in time and space. In it creator and creation, work and artist, are one"
Curt Sachs, History of Dance
TRAD MUSIC
According to what was stated by UNESCO in Paris in 1989, addressing the Governments of the member countries: «traditional and popular culture is part of the universal heritage of humanity, [it] is a powerful means of bringing different peoples and social groups closer together and of affirming their cultural identity».
TRAD DANCES
Get ready for a tiptoe journey from Southern Italy to France, from Spain to Greece, with stops in Ireland and Eastern Europe... The traditional dance courses of Arci Tavola Tonda are led by Barbara Crescimanno
TRAD MUSIC
CHORÓS. Dances, Voices and Rhythms of Southern Italy
The tragedy choir of the classical period was born on the archetype of the choirs of Nymphs and Muses, from which the initiatory choirs of adolescents and young women and men of the archaic Greek world also derive.
In Southern Italy and Sicily the oldest archaeological evidence regarding dance and music are linked to the ritual world of the goddesses, their priestesses and offerers, and, until the last century, the frame drum was a purely female ritual instrument (see Atlas of the frame drum in the Euro-Mediterranean area).
Anyone today who wants to study performing arts, theatre, singing, percussion, dance, must look to these roots, to a world in which what is today separated into different disciplines was born intertwined together.
The proposed training course, lasting two years, is divided into two weekly lessons which include teachings:
- on the rhythmic movement relating to the dances of Southern Italy and on breathing and vocal techniques, with introductory elements to the pedagogy of the group and movement;
- on the techniques on the frame drum.
The dance path and the percussive path will develop in parallel: the same repertoire will be tackled at the same time from the point of view of the rhythm of the steps and the technique on the drum.
The weekly appointments will be accompanied by intensive in-depth meetings, on a monthly basis, on the numerous topics addressed during the course of study, both 'technical' and theoretical.
CHORÓS. Dances, Voices and Rhythms of Southern Italy
SPONDE SONORE
LUTHERIE
Guitars, violins, plectrum instruments, frame drums, in our laboratory we don't miss anything...
The Lutherie is the result of a project that trained ten craftsmen and women capable of repairing, restoring and building acoustic instruments, with particular attention to traditional ones, in a context in which this art is now rapidly being lost. At the end of the training, two of the students of the original group became the managers of the Popular Lutherie of Arci Tavola Tonda.
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RECORDING STUDIO
The Arci Tavola Tonda Recording Studio is dedicated to the great Palermo musician Giuseppe Leopizzi.
A recording room of around 20 m2 and a slightly smaller control room, which also overlooks the large stage of the concert hall to record larger ensembles, together with all the other comforts of the Arci club - from the cafeteria to the sofas, from the luthier's shop to the rehearsals - allow you to fully concentrate on the creative process and make the recording experience a real pleasure.
Play it, it must be said, to believe...
UPCOMING EVENTS
Un doppio concerto per una serata tutta pugliese a Sponde Sonore.
Brancaleone Project è un ensemble formato da Giuseppe Spedicato al basso tuba, Rocco Nigro alla fisarmonica e Giorgio Distante alla tromba, presentano a Palermo il nuovo disco Gradisca.
Alessia Tondo, cantante e autrice del Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, tra le voci più rappresentative della nuova scena folk/world italiana, ha debuttato nel 2021 con il suo primo album Sita da lei scritto ed interpretato, che ha ricevuto un'ottima risposta da stampa e pubblico ed è stato giudicato tra i 10 migliori dischi di world del 2021.
Emilia Zamuner e Massimo Moriconi combinano virtuosismo, melodia e senso dell’ironia nella formula del duo voce e contrabbasso, una formula con cui affrontano con spavalda musicalità e con empatia travolgente un repertorio ampio, costituito da standard del jazz, classici della canzone d’autore italiana e brani originali.
Il suono e lo stile unico di Omar Sosa si sposa perfettamente con le percussioni multicolori e multiformi (tamburi Bata, congas, bongos, quitiplas, maracas, guiro, piatti e altro) del percussionista venezuelano Gustavo Ovalles.
Il sodalizio artistico tra i due nasce nel 1999, ed è alla base anche dell’album “Ayaguna” uscito nel 2003, registrato nel corso del concerto tenuto il 25 luglio del 2002 al Motion Blue di Yokohama (uno dei club giapponesi aderenti al prestigioso circuito internazionale Blue Note).
Il titolo del disco, “Ayaguna”, si ispira direttamente ad una pratica religiosa della cultura Yoruba dell’Africa Occidentale conosciuta a Cuba come Santeria.
Omar Sosa è uno di quei nomi che non hanno bisogno di molte presentazioni. Il compositore e pianista cubano, classe 1965, nominato sette volte ai Grammy, è uno dei jazzisti più versatili e completi della sua generazione. È stato capace di fondere mirabilmente un’estesa gamma di elementi jazz, di world music e di elettronica con le sue radici afrocubane, riuscendo a creare una sonorità fresca e originale, dal forte sapore latino, ma lasciando sempre grande spazio all’improvvisazione. La carriera di Sosa incarna la mentalità aperta di un artista giramondo (ha vissuto nel nord e nel sud America, a Cuba ed in Spagna) e visionario, che ha lavorato incessantemente per cercare di costruire una visione musicale coerente e personale, davvero cosmopolita. Una ventina di dischi da leader in circa un quarto di secolo di attività professionale parlano da soli. Dentro una così nutrita ed interessante produzione musicale, vi sono ben sei album di piano–solo (l’ultimo, «Senses», è del 2014) – formula che ancor oggi forse predilige – ma anche dei magnifici duetti con il trombettista Paolo Fresu – è un duo collaudatissimo il loro, di cui è appena uscito il terzo episodio discografico, «Eros» (2016) – qualche lavoro orchestrale e, negli ultimi tempi, anche il Quartetto Afrocubano, interamente composto da suoi connazionali, con cui nel 2015 ha inciso «Ilé», lavoro decisamente riuscito e suggestivo. http://omarsosa.com/
Gustavo Ovalles. Il maestro percussionista afrovenezuelano Gustavo Ovalles è nato a Caracas nel 1967. Come artista e professore, Gustavo ha viaggiato in tutto il mondo con i suoi strumenti tradizionali che includono maracas, culoepuya, quitiplas e bata drums. Con il pioneristico progetto di Omar Sosa Roots Trilogy, Gustavo ha calcato diversi importanti palchi in Europa, Giappone e Stati Uniti. Ha inoltre partecipato al l’album di Sosa Sentir, nominato ai Grammy. Attualmente vive un po’ in Francia e un po’ in Venezuela. http://gustavo.ovalles.free.fr/
A workshop between rhythm, dance and anthropology of the sacred, reserved for artists and researchers in training.
An immersive path of study and development of techniques for voice, dance, and patterns of Mediterranean rhythms on the frame drum, working on increasing the skills that are the basis of a 'Greek choir': harmonization of voices, rhythmic combinations of sound and movement, dynamics of interaction between the participants and between soloist and choir.
WHERE WE ARE
Arci Tavola Tonda is located in Palermo at Pavilion 18A of the Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa - an area of 55 thousand square meters of industrial archeology warehouses which can be accessed from Via P. Gili n. 4.
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