Researcher and dance instructor at the Arci Tavola Tonda School of Traditional Music and Dance (in collaboration with Giuseppe Paradiso); she coordinates the ethnocoreographic research group TrizziRiDonna and leads a research project on the relationship between music, dance, and the sacred feminine, directing various training programs:
– CHOROS. Dances, Voices, and Rhythms of Southern Italy: a two-year training program combining music, theater, and pedagogy, aimed at performers, educators, cultural operators, teachers, and enthusiasts.
– Nymphs, Maenads, Bacchantes. Female Voices and Rhythms in the Mediterranean: an intensive training workshop (2022-23) and artistic residency supported by MiBACT and SIAE (2020).

She is the Sicilian representative for the website Preistoria in Italia and the coordinator of the FRAME DRUM ATLAS project (Mediterranean Music Atlas), which she will present in a dedicated conference on Friday, July 11th at the Gran Bal Trad.

PUBLICATIONS
– La Kore Siceliota, Mediterranean Nymph, in Prometeo n.147 (2019).
– The Bal Folk Movement in Palermo. Dance Practices and the Dynamics of Socio-Cultural Identity, in Street Music and Narrative Traditions, Museo Pasqualino Edizioni (2019).
– Mediterranean Nymphs. Goddesses/Women Who Heal, in METIS (monographic issue) for Allargare il cerchio, edited by Maria Livia Alga and Rosanna Cima (2020).
– When Women Played the Drums, Italian translation (with Francesca Citarrella, Marina Leopizzi, Laura Zizzo) of Layne Redmond’s When Drummers Were Women, Venexia (2021).
– The Sacred Feminine: Figures and Ritual Forms in the Mediterranean Between Memory and Contemporaneity (editor), Istituto Poligrafico Europeo (2021).

Website : www.tavolatonda.org