The pizzica is a trance-like ancient dance considered rebellious by the ancient Romans for uniting people across classes. Credit: NYPL public domain I grew up in New Haven in the 1970’s having ...

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 ...

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has published a video on social media in which she dances the Pizzica, a folk dance from the southern Italian region of Apulia - where the meeting took place - on ...

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 ...

The pizzica is a trance-like ancient dance considered rebellious by the ancient Romans for uniting people across classes. Credit: NYPL public domain Full size 1024 × 764 ...

A forgotten brand of homegrown folk music known as the pizzica has turned the Italian region of Puglia into one of the most fashionable summer festival destinations in Europe. A record 200,000 ...