Pizzica has transcended its Dionysian roots to find its place in the centre of the biggest festival in Italy, and is now performed worldwide – but as with all ancient arts, adapting to modernity ...

Italian musician and songwriter Antonio Castrignano has been making people dance from southern Italy to France in a series of performances that marry Italian musician and songwriter Antonio ...

In the main piazza of Botrugno, eight miles south-west from Otranto, families sit around tables at kiosks in anticipation of the evening’s music show. But before the main act appears, the families are ...

Hailing from Puglia and smoothly updating the region’s folk traditions, the seven-piece band expertly blended trance-inducing dance with exhilarating rhythms They began with an eerie display of ...