The sicilian Ballettu has some analogies with the southern tarantella wider family; it was performed most of all in a mixed and not mixed couple; many are the local variations, some of them even in the tied and much turned shape (pirullè), so that wide is its musical repertory. Searching the last traces of the traditional agropastoral sicilian tarantas, we find the “Ballettu”, a dance from the mountainous area near Messina, the Peloritani, endangered in its oldest form, but still…
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