| Ballo
delle conche: |
it's
a courting dance. Boys waited for girls near the fountain, where they
went to take water, with the "conca", to court them. |
| Ballo
della I'gliara e d'gli Uigli: |
new
dance presented to the
International Festival of Folklore in Alatri. |
| Mazurka: |
It
is a dance with a triple time. Its origins are not correctly local,
but it was imported in our region by a Polish army. |
| Quadriglia: |
lively
dance with a Reinaissance origin. |
| Tarantella: |
it's
acheerfull dance with a neapolitan influence, because of the neighbourhood
of our region with Campania. |
| Valzer: |
It's
a dance with slow steps and time. It has a Provencal origin and was
showed in Ciociaria by a French army who was helping the Pope, when
our region was under the papal State. |
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| Ballo
dei nastri: |
it
was danced in noble families during holiday periods. This dance is
performed with coloured ribbons that corrispond to the coluores of
the dancers' skirt. Each colour corrisponds to the family by whom
the girls worked. |
| Polka: |
It's
a vivacious dance, with rapid movements. A big importance is taken
by the two groups of dancers, the female and the male one. |
| Saltarello: |
It's
a typical dance of "Ciociaria", with an ancient latin
origin that comes from latin "saltatus". It has a very
rapid movements and an hopping walk. It is danced in couple or groups.The
dancers are closed with arms on the shoulders eachothers; the bodies
are a little bent. In this position it seems that legs and feet
never leave the ground. The name can change in the different part
of Ciociaria, but doesn't change the characteristic movement.
The
salterello of Alatri was invented by Mr Flavio Fiorletta( using
a particular kind of pasta to imagine dancers).
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