Sensual dancers will enact the ancient ecstatic rites of Dionysus when Theater for the New City presents Alessandra Belloni and her company, I Giullari di Piazza, in "Tarantella: Spider Dance" January ...

Night of the Taranta, an Italian folk music festival akin to Woodstock, celebrates a musical tradition that dates to antiquity. The Folk Music Festival That Started With A Spider Bite The tarantella ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a tantalizing tarantella performed by L'Arpeggiata. The early music group is led by Austrian harpist and orchestra conductor Christina Pluhar. They give this Neapolitan ...