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\u201cThe Night of the Taranta<\/strong>, that\u2019s what we need!\u201d, said my friend when he phoned.<\/p>\n

Come off it! Don\u2019t tell me you need to go all the way to Puglia<\/strong> to bring her to her senses! I teased.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet packed I said, and stop making a fuss\u201d.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s in Melpignano<\/strong>, we\u2019d have to drive all the way down to Lecce<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t you realise Gaia\u2019s been in that state for weeks? This is her only chance!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Going to Europe\u2019s biggest folk music festival<\/strong>? How\u2019s that going to help?<\/p>\n

\u201cMy gran lived down there and she always said there were cases just like Gaia\u2019s. I\u2019ve even bought a tambourine<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But it\u2019s a cultural event<\/strong>… it\u2019s about rediscovering and promoting traditional music<\/strong>. All well and good, but what\u2019s that got to with your girlfriend\u2019s angst?<\/p>\n

\u201cNow cut it out, will you? Look at it as a chance for a swim at the amazing Salento seaside<\/strong> \u2013 where can you find beaches<\/strong> like that around here, then?\u201d.<\/p>\n

OK, OK, keep your shirt on! I\u2019ll throw a couple of T-shirts and my swimming togs into a bag and we\u2019ll be off.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just wait and see \u2013 everything\u2019s going to turn out fine; Gaia will start dancing with all those people, and nobody will notice a thing. Dancing the pizzica<\/strong> will help free her mind. It\u2019s a festival with 150,000 spectators<\/strong>. You reckon everyone goes just for the concert, do you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019ve heard it\u2019s a megaconcert<\/strong>, with top names on the music scene from Italy and all over the world<\/strong>. Every year, the festival appoints a concertmaster<\/strong> whose job is to reinterpret the classics of the local musical tradition<\/strong> with the Night of the Taranta<\/strong> folk orchestra. Some household names have done this in the past \u2013 Ludovico Einaudi<\/strong>, Goran Bregovic<\/strong>, Phil Manzanera<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see you\u2019re in the know!\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, how could I not know about the Notte della Taranta<\/strong>! So tell me, do you know what the therapeutic ritual of tarantism<\/strong> involves, all of its rhythmic, musical and colour-based features, those objects they place round the edges, and so on?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat objects? What are you on about?\u201d<\/p>\n

No kidding! How about the handkerchiefs<\/strong> they use to find out what colour spider<\/strong> it was that bit your girlfriend? The water barrels, the jars of aromatic herbs. To see if it was a libertine<\/strong>, a sad and silent <\/strong>or a tempestuous spider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s enough of your chatter, we\u2019ll pick you up in half an hour. Byeee!\u201d Click!<\/p>\n

For goodness sake, I just knew it, he doesn\u2019t know the first thing about Tarantism<\/a> <\/strong>or the Night of the Taranta<\/strong><\/a>, does he? And all she\u2019s looking for is an excuse to indulge in a bit of revelry, so she\u2019s pretending her fits were caused by being bitten by a spider<\/strong>. All they needed to say was that they wanted to go to Puglia<\/strong>, I would have agreed in a flash; I love southern Italy<\/strong>. I was born right after my mother danced a pizzica<\/strong> when she was nine months pregnant carrying me. Some things you simply feel in your bones.<\/p>\n

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Special thanks to Anthony Green for the translation<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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