the students are starting dancing
Originally,
the Tarantella was an Italian folk dance of lower and middle classes. The
name Tarantella derives from the name of an insect: the Tarantula. In fact
a person bitten by tarantula for the pain begins jumping: this is the
first step of the TARANTELLA dance.
It is considered severely unlucky to dance the tarantella alone, so it is
executed by couples of dancers who play
castanets , tambourines and mandolins, violins, guitars and
dulcimers while dancing. It represents an emblem of southern colour and
vitality. Others think this dance was born as " a courtship
dance". The steps of the dancer seem to express his love
for the girl who is dancing with him.
They are dancing
Mrs Orlandi Lucia ( Physical Education) and her students are dancing together
- - The bite of the spider was presumed to make one hallucinate. The town's folk will play music while the afflicted person would dance non-stop, to ward off the spider's venom.
- - Others say, when bitten, the Tarantula spiders venom, would make the person uncontrollably moves aroud as ifhe is dancing.
- Woman working in the fields, who would be bit by the Tarantula spider would dance to pull out the venom. It was the only remedy for the bite of this venomus spider.