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What people are saying: 

Video Volume 1:

"The costumes are wonderful. The music, well, you can't keep your feet still! It's just so good. We like every bit of it!"
-- Ken and June Wilson, Keiser, Oregon

"What a great job…!"
-- Vincenzo and Barbara Valenti, Aloha, Oregon

"You did a great job with both the instruction and entertainment. I looked at it twice! Have given a copy to our club. Let me know when you make another tape!"
-- Frank Di Cristina, Jr., Georgia & Sicily.

"Video is really wonderful! I plan to inform our membership."
-- Eleanor Ficele, spokesperson for Yakima Sons of Italy, Yakima, WA.

"Really enjoyed the production. It was well done. A very good information/entertainment video. The narration was very well done, clever and informative. I liked the way you introduced the dances and told a little about them. I also enjoyed the way you flirted in the video, especially when you picked up your skirt and showed your petticoats at the end of one of the dances. You have a very magnetic personality and it comes through in the video. Keep up the good work."
-- Helaine Rampley, folk dance teacher, Red Bluff, CA.

"Tante Grazie…truly appreciate the video. Plan to share it with the membership at this Sunday's meeting! I am very proud of you to continue [our] quest to inform others of Italian Folk Dances, etc. You are a special lady."
-- Carmela Buttice, Italian Heritage Festival Chairperson, Walla Walla, WA.

Video Volume 2:

"I can see your enthusiasm and passion to keep the traditions alive and think it is a wonderful way to celebrate…I played the video last night and watched it with my mum.  It was a great reminiscence experience for her and at the end she was up and away showing me some moves that she had seen danced as a child. I think it is fascinating that she probably only danced the tarantella a few times in her entire life and still has those memories and watching your video was a good trigger for her. I have now viewed it and feel extremely inspired and eager to start organizing our Italian folk dance night in Italy."
-- Anna, from United Kingdom who leads olive picking tours in Italy.

"…Just to let you know I returned from Italy and I did try out your ideas on Italian Folk Dancing and it proved a great success [during our olive picking tour in Italy]. I did not have a chance to rehearse at all so it was very much a case of doing it on the night. We were lucky to have an accordion player and I brought some scarves with me. Although I could have organized it better, I think for the first attempt it was a lot of fun and all my relatives in the village said that we should have continued longer!! This will become a feature for next year's olive picking season and I plan to go to Italy next summer and organize a folk dancing evening as part of the local summer festival. I will of course need more information and dance ideas for that time."
-- Anna, from United Kingdom who leads olive picking tours in Italy.

"…halfway through the tape, I began to cry. What I was watching hit some chords somewhere deep inside-- maybe memories of my grandmother dancing-- whatever. It was a surprising response…I am looking forward to the next tape--who knows, I might have another good cry."
-- Anita from Pennsylvania

"Your new video is great. Very clear and easy to follow. Thought having all ages some in costume and others just there, gave a good impression that this was supposed to be a fun thing. It would also lead to everyone feeling that they should eventually be in costume. Am ordering another video for our lodge… "
-- Frank from Georgia

" I liked it. I followed along and enjoyed watching it. I plan to use it at my July wedding and we have a May wedding in Detroit."
-- Fred from Washington, DC.

Video Volume 3:

" I have just received your [3] videos. How genuine and powerful! I went thru the first 30 minutes of volume 3 and received so much inspiration and excitement, that I had to take a break to recover. I use this break to express my gratitude to you and your group for such an outstanding product. In the past three years I have been thoroughly researching the topic, retrieving books/tapes, attending workshops, experimenting on myself and others. These videos are for me so far the most inspiring and complete document I have ever found.

It is sheer joy to see people of different ethnic groups dancing together, gently and powerfully inspired by the passion of your group. I do treasure your emphasis on the healing and spiritual nature of these dances, which luminously transpires in the sequences, words and sounds of the video.

I regard this inspiring material as a loving retrieval of the authentic spirit of the Southern Italian traditions, a genuine initiation into their mysteries, offered with innocence and passion, a transformational experience in itself and an irresistible invitation to join and expand the dance." 
-- Franco Santoro of Scotland, author, shamanic facilitator, member of Findhorn Foundation, performer with Alessandra Belloni, www.astroshamanism.org