The story is set in the South of Italy in the 1940s. An eighteen-year old girl and a twenty- year old boy have shared a bond of love for two years. Every day Paolo climbs the mountain where Caterina lives with her wealthy and respected landowning family. Their love is as innocent and real as the feeling of hope that followed the liberation of Italy from the darkness of WW2. The excitement of the unknown and a sense of good things to come are in the air. But everything seems to be changing too quickly, and an unexpected series of events, choices and missed opportunities, change the young lovers’ lives forever
Highlights of Tarantella are the exciting diverse forms of the dance of the tarantella and pizzica, expressed through magnificent free style group, duet and striking solos, in which tradition meets pop and classical. Extraordinary is the pizzica tarantata, an ancient female healing dance still practiced today in the deep south of Mediterranean Italy - the speed and rhythm of this beat facilitates the expulsion of the tarantula’s venom, the venom of social, psychological and physical oppressions. Tarantella offers traditional music and ballads that have experienced a revival in Europe, in particular among young people. Thanks to also to Alan Lomax for the musical research he did in Italy in the 1940’s,