#tarantella

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Tandra Quinn as Tarantella in Mesa Of Lost Women (1953)

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2026

By Josh Ryals

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Balla! e dici mica sei bella, e vita a tarantella. 🇮🇹❤️

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[danskjavlarna]

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Here's my collection of vintage dancing imagery.

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New video out!

Il Canto degli Italiani, with music by Michele Novaro, is here reimagined in the Tarantella style from southern Italy. It is a fast-paced dance originating from the Salento peninsula in Apulia, possibly from rituals of ancient Greek pagan cults in the area.

There are regional variants of tarantella, the most famous one being the Neapolitan one. Other slower variants come from Sicily and Calabria, while the faster ones come from the city of Taranto and surrounding areas of Apulia.

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https://mysticsciences.com/mystery/the-dancing-mania-sometimes-fatal-of-14th-and-15th-century-europe/

[deschubba]

We see a consistent corollary here between the inherently operative necromantic role these Stars [Acumen and Aculeus] play, and the complementary nature of the tarantella as a form of exorcism, as folk-necromantic praxis for vanquishing the unwell ancestor, or for deepening the heretical pacts of witchcraft. (...) I discovered after further investigation that the spider whose bite was renowned to cause tarantism was, in fact, Latrodectus tredecimguttatus – the Mediterranean black widow. In addition to this spider, scorpion bites were also included as potential cause of tarantism, which supported some of the more mytho-poetic interconnectivity I was observing between the role of spiders with Scorpion Stars. The Orphic literature often conveyed a relationship between the tarantata and the maenads, and these bitten-women were believed to have worn red dresses. This detail struck me, considering how often my visions imparted the detail of the spirits dressed in red. As the music played for the tarantella evolved over time, one of the most important instruments outside of the tambourine became the violin. This sensual cannibalism, the body dancing with death in order to capture life’s attention, deeply enchanted me and spoke to the depth and erotic volatility of such formidably enchanting Stars, and their human vessels. Just as cannibalism in pursuit of life was so integral to the life cycle of a black widow, both after its birth and in mating rituals, so too did the spiritual cannibalism of the wounded flesh factor into the esoterica of these Stars and their children.

Sasha Ravitch, The Red Dreaded Spindle

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Ramblings on Remixing

So, in an effort to have some form of background music for the short, I've been looking for public domain sheet music to mix into something new. For The Godfather, the music there consists largely of slowed down Italian Tarantellas, so that's the direction I wound up looking in.

Option 1 is this: Tarantella Op. 23 by William Henry Squire. It's moody, and I could probably shuffle around different sections so that the brighter middle chunk comes before the moodiness that the piece opens with.

Option 2 is Alla Tarantella by Edgar A Brazelton. The audio attached below is a transcription that I did, but I haven't had the chance to put in any dynamics yet. A lot of the drama in this piece comes later on, but rearranging for the short might be less of a problem than it feels like right now.

Icing on this would be using live cellos and violins for this.