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Type: Public
Created: Mar 5, 2008
Members: 1
Views: 91
Location: Agrigento , Italy
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Group Leader:
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Nino
NOTES and PROGRAM
The “Akragas Folk Dance Group” was founded by a group of young people, keen of popular traditions, with the mandate of researching, spreading and staging, the folkloristic, historic and cultural traditions of the Sicilian people. The costumes worn by the group members represent a well defined historical period, that is the end of the nineteenth century. The musical instruments, the songs, the dances and the stagings instead embrace a greater historical period which includes: the Greek, Roman, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish and Norman dominations of the Island, all of which have molded, throughout the centuries, Sicily.
The spectacle includes the following distinctive song, dance and music of Sicily, among which:
DUETTU D’AMURI - Love duet (Song)
TARANTELLA - Tarantella native to Agrigento (Dance)
MARRANZANATA – (Song accampanied by typical instrument “Marranzano”)
POLKA - (Dance)
MAZURKA - (Dance)
VITTI ‘NA CROZZA - (Song)
CIURI CIURI - Flowers Flowers (Song)
CANTO DEI MIETITORI - Song of the harvester (Song)
U CHIOVU - The nail (Dance)
The distinctive musical instruments of the ensemble are:
MARRANZANO: which produces vibrant sound similar to the chirp of birds.
FRISCALETTU: a soloist reed flute.
QUARTARA: a jug in terracotta, which produces a sound similar to that of a bass.
TANNURETTU or TAMMURU: a wooden loom covered with kidskin
TAMMURU DI SAN CALO’: a typical drum of Agrigento
CIARAMEDDA: an instument similar to a bagpipe.
CIANCIANI: little bells.
And also: ACCORDION, MANDOLIN AND GUITAR.
Agragas Folk Dance Group - Activity report during 2003/04/05/06/07/8
- SPAIN, Palma of Majorca - X° World Folk Festival - 23/26 April 2003
Prizes: Dance - 2nd place - Costumes 3rd place
- SWISS, Rorschach - Ethno am see, music kultur festival - 13/17 August 2003
- PHILIPPINES, Manila - 1st Manila International Folk Festival –- 3/7 Dec 2003
- ITALY, Naples - Italian National TV 3rd Channel - January 2004
- USA, Chicago, Boston, New York - 28 Feb/7 March 2004
- ITALY, Naples - US Base Nato - April 2004
- ITALY, Ferrara/Verona – Pirandello’s days studies - April 2004
- GREECE, Athens (Goulandris Foundation) - June 2004
- ITALY, Agrigento - International Meeting of Pirandello’s Studies – 5/8 Dec 2004
ITALY, Agrigento – 60^ Almond Flower Festival and European Dance Caravan February 2005
- HUNGARY, Budapest – Italian Week - 24/28 February 2005
- TUNISIA, Tunis – Italian Week - 11/14 March 2005
- HUNGARY, Budapest Duna Carnival and European Dance Caravan
11/19 June 2005 www.eudancecaravan.com
- SPAIN, Almeria - XXII Festival Folklorico De Los Pueblos Ibericos Y Del MEDITERRÁNEO
16/22 August 2005
GREECE, Athens - European Dance Caravan – 27 Sept/2 Oct 2005
ROMANIA, Sfantu George - European Dance Caravan – 10/15 october 2005
BRASILE, Rio de Janeiro/San Paolo - ABAV-International Tourism Exchange: 25 Oct/5 Nov 2005
ITALY, Agrigento – 61^ Almond Flower Festival and European Dance Caravan February 2006
(www.eudancecaravan.com)
USA, Los Angeles/San Francisco/New York – Tournee - 7/18 June 2006
ITALY, Domodossola (Verbania) – Festival Internazionale del Folklore - 23/26 June 2006
TAIWAN - I-lan International Children’s Folklore & Folkgame Festival - 9/20 August 2006
SPAIN, Valencia/Borriana – 5th Festival Internacional de Folklore de la Plana Baixa - 11/14 Oct 2006
AUSTRIA, Graz - GRAZ IN MASCHERA – Il Ballo di Casanova 8/10 Feb 2007
SPAIN, Palma of Majorca - XII° World Folk Festival - 23/26 April 2007
Prizes: Dance – 3rd place
ITALY, Cortona – 4th European Music & Dance Festival – 5/8 July 2007
SYRIA, Bosra - XIX Bosra International Festival - 16/26 August 2007
OMAN, Muscat – Muscat Festival January 2008
SPAGNA, Festival de Danses de l’Antiga Corona d’Aragó – Castellon – 7/11 may 2008
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