Dance and memory
Ischia News ed Eventi June Magazine is available in Italian and English for the tourist island of Ischia.
Even Giulio Jasolino (1549-1639) remarked, Calabrian doctor at the court of Naples in his seminal text “De Rimedi naturali” that are now known on the island of Ischia Pithecusa describing the populations of the island: in Barano people amuse greatly to dance”. He was referring to the “Ndrezzata”, the ancient dance of Greek origin, which is kept in Buonopane, a small village in the municipality of Barano located about three hundred meters above sea level.
The impressive mosaic ceramic - twenty meters long by artist Nello Di Leva - dominates the square of San Giovanni Battista in Buonopane. The ceramic mosaic was placed in 2011 on the initiative of the municipal administration headed by Mayor Paolino Buono with meaningful images and tells the old story of Barano and above depicts the “Ndrezzata”, the oldest island dance whose origins are still shrouded in mystery and are lost in the mists of time because it is impossible to find an explanation to the “preach of the corporal”, which you can read on the mosaic.
“The preaching of Corporal” is the original story narrated by the ringleader to explain this dance of love and war which involves eighteen dancers "weavers", four players, two clarinets and two drums that give rhythm. This traditional band is reserved only for citizens of Buonopane who participate in transmitting the art and privilege from father to son, from generation to generation for centuries.
To the “Ndrezzata”, who performs Tuesday, June 24 to the end of the festivities in honor of St. John the Baptist in the square of Buonopane at 23 is dedicated the service of the opening of the June issue of the Magazine “Ischianews & Events” directed by Enrico Deuringer with the co-manager of Giuseppe Mazzella and the editorship of Tommaso Massimo Pilato.
With ‘Dance and memory’. And the story of the legend and history of San Vito Patron of Forio whose celebrations are held June 14 to 17.
And yet all the events of the twelfth edition of the Ischia Film Festival this year chaired by director Pupi Avati with screenings, exhibitions, conferences, which are held in the ancient village of the Aragonese Castle in the ancient village of Celsa, now called Ischia Ponte, from June 28 to July 5.
There is also space at the Ischia International Journalism Award now in its 35th edition at the Grand Hotel Regina Isabella in Lacco Ameno on June 27.
With the events and the complete guide to restaurants and pizzerias, hotels of all places and of all classes, the beauty centers, the shops of typical products, thermal park, to service agencies, with the map of the typical products and the wine route and timetable of Transportation from Naples and Pozzuoli and public automotive service on the island.
There are also the most important monuments to be seen such as the Aragonese Castle at Ischia Ponte, Villa Arbusto and the excavations of Santa Restituta in Lacco Ameno, Mortella by William and Susana Walton in Forio, La Colombaia by Luchino Visconti and Giardini Ravino while for like hiking the trails are proposed hills leading up to the roads of the island, the island’s highest mountain with its 788 meters.
“Ischianews & Events” has run in 10 thousand copies and is distributed through 400 points of the island of Ischia in Italian and English.
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