How to Use tarantella in a Sentence
tarantella
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Instead, the ‘tarantella as cure’ dance is more formally known as the pizzica.
—Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2026
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But the tarantism of southern Italy and its ensuing tarantella dance both seem unique.
—Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2026
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Over the centuries, the tarantella has become a celebration of life and joy rather than a frantic ritual.
—Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2026
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Here, the tarantella is by turns gleeful and demonic — a frantic dance of the doomed, whirling through a mist of contemporary clangor.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
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Tarantism and the tarantella today These days, most historians and scientists agree that wolf spiders didn’t cause tarantism.
—Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2026
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Under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, the evening builds to the lively tarantella finale of Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony.
—Mike Hamersly, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
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Every August, La Notte della Taranta, Europe’s largest open-air festival dedicated to traditional folk music, the pizzica, and the tarantella, takes place in Italy’s Puglia region.
—Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2026
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