Theater for the New City, Crystal Field, Director, Presents

ALESSANDRA BELLONI & I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA
“GOD IS A WOMAN AND SHE IS BLACK” – Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue
(212) 254-1109
www.theaterforthenewcity.net
12/28 @ 8 PM and 12/29 @ 3 PM

Musicians
ALESSANDRA BELLONI - Artistic Director (lead vocal, mezzo-soprano, southern Italian percussion)
WILSON MONTUORI (classical and acoustic guitar)
JOE DENINZON (violin, mandolin, vocals)
KEVIN NATHANIEL (vocals, mbira checkere)

Dancers
FRANCESCA SILVANO, PETER De GERONIMO, and GRETA CAMPO SILENIA LUCIUS
Public Relations: AUDREY ROSS
Lights: IVAN THOMAS
Sound: GREG – RAWLIVE SOUND
Program Design: MARK MINDEK

Alessandra Belloni & I Giullari Di Piazza offer a unique experience that combines music, rituals, trance dancing, and chanting from Southern Italy, France, Spain and Brazil in GOD IS A WOMAN AND SHE IS BLACK. Belloni shares her journey as she explores the Seven Black Madonnas she first saw in Southern Italy. That’s a journey that includes healing rituals, eroticism, worship, miracles, and transformation. The result is mesmerizing, as the audience becomes one with the rhythms of traditional instruments like the violin and the guitar, as well as unfamiliar instruments like the mbira, handheld percussion, and the tambourine. It’s a performance where anything is possible and that perhaps is the message. The conveyance of message is pure joy and celebration. Fascinating experience.

- Laurie Lawson -