INQUIRY OF SCHOLARS ON THE RICH HERITAGE OF SICILIAN FOLK DANCES

These days Caltavuturo center Madonie, is given special attention: from Florence came the famous etnocoreologi, that traditional dance scholars to document the rich repertoire of dances local Professor. Joseph Gala researcher Univ. Sassari and founder of the Cultural Association "Taranta" in Florence, the most important center of studies on folk dances in Italy since 1986 is in Sicily to document camera and audio equipment all forms of dance from the island still traceable directly testimony of the elderly. Team also belong Tiziana Miniati and Pino Blonde researcher Florence the first and second Sicily, Enna specialist on folklore.

The music and dances of Sicily are generally made famous by the many folk groups that offer all the continents of expression patterns of rural life, pastoral and maritime island but in most cases this is folk music revisited and dances created by local choreographers, while archaic registers actually used in the miserable lives of the Sicilian people are often quite different, they have other sounds, other gestures, and other styles more suited to the harsh life and toil of past generations, still in use until the year 50s of last century. But older people remember the campaign song, serenading the old and the old dances that vary from country to country, a little 'how local dialects.

A Caltavuturo early as 2008 researchers had met in the old country and good player fiscaliettu Nino Giambrone said "Jampa," and immediately sensed the fertility of the territory under the folkloric aspect. Then the visits have increased and the collection of play, and sing ballads have become more frequent. The collaboration with the folk group "uproar" has made the investigation more fruitful because its director Gaetano patiently Castellana has managed to involve many elderly, who have gradually taken over the old dance to really take pleasure in redo. Pin accurate reconstruction of the repertoire was the seventy-five dancer and performer Calandrone Nino said "Sòlamo. The enthusiasm of the elderly is becoming "contagious" and young adults were first intrigued and then began to try the first steps. The specialties are the choral of the country and especially scotis sciatamarra. The first is a very popular dance in various countries of Sicily, despite the many local variations, while the sciatamarra, enigmatic name on which researchers will make a special etymological reflection, is a dance specific Caltavuturo: This is a kind of mazurka nineteenth-century figures, probably first used in the aristocratic salons of the gentry, and later adopted by all the inhabitants. The dance of so many couples have a particular style, with pauses that give grace and character dance.

This research will be born next month anthropological study of an essay with history and descriptions of dances, musical scores and interviews with elders, all accompanied by a DVD that recreates the full performances of dances and cultural contexts of the country. It will be one of the first commitments of the new administration that takes office in the coming weeks in the Town Hall.