Identity, saying no to violence against women, pizzica, tambourines, dance: it can be told like this The Night of the Taranta signed by Fiorella Mannoia.
She was the concertmaster of the 2023 edition of the popular festival that yesterday in Melpignano, in the province of Lecce, celebrated traditional Salento music.
A celebration attended by 200 thousand people, according to the organizers of the event that for its 26th edition has chosen the theme of identity because "identity is a bundle of divergent lines that find their waythe individual's point of interest,” he explained Italo Calvino in “Machine Civilizations”.
Iconic phrase that has become a slogan because 2023 is the year of the identity interpreted by Mannoia who wanted with him Arisa, Brunori Sas and Tananai.
On the big stage, the popular orchestra dictated the rhythms of Salento made dance by the dance troupe that interpreted the passion and rebellion of the tarantolate women who became a symbol of those who fight against a destiny not chosen but imposed.
The concert was also a reflection on current events, on women who have been raped and killed. “Enough now, no other” lwritten on the shirt worn by Tananai who marked his face in red to say stop to gender violence.
Mannoia's appeal to women to “raise your voice because we are at a maximum level”. The words of the conductor who recalls that “love is sharing, love is consenting.”
The voices of women for women's stories sung with joy, suffering and hope by the women of the popular orchestra opposed and complementary to the men who have praised Salento.
The contemporaneity of the concert is in the faces of the audience who sing popular verses and intones "Bocca di rosa" a tribute to De Andrè and to the women who “they love by putting love above all else.”
The 2023 edition was told by tambourines and bagpipes arranged by Francesco Di Carlo, from the choreographies of Francesca Romana Di Maio and from the graphic realization of Carolina Stamerra Grassi and Claudia AndreoliThe Night of the Taranta also made the mayor of Rome jump, Roberto Gualtieri who – among the spectators – was won over by the tarantula-like sounds.
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