Dances
See also: Italian folk dance- alessandrina: A skipping dance from the area around Pavia
- alta danza: Early Spanish name for the saltarello
- argismo: A Sicilian term for the tarantella healing ritual, from argia, spider
- ariosa: A Carnival dance
- balùn: A folk dance
- ballarella: A variant name for the saltarello
- ballo di baraben: A ritual dance
- bas de tach: A Carnival dance
- crellareccia: A wedding dance in the sonata per la sposa of Alta Sabina
- bal drabces: A Carnival dance
- danza dei coltelli: The dance of the knives, a knife dance derived from the tarantella
- forlana: Venetian term for the furlana
- friulana: Venetian term for the furlana
- furlana: A folk dance, from Campieli, favored in Venice
- furlane: Venetian term for the furlana
- frullana: Venetian term for the furlana
- gagliarda: Italian term for the galliarde
- gagliarde: Italian term for the galliarde
- giga: A skipping dance from the area around Pavia
- ballo dei Gobbi: A Carnival dance, dance of the hunchbacks
- ballo liscio: A ballroom dance
- ballo di Mantova: A folk skipping dance
- monferrina: A 6/8 dance historically associated with Monferrato and the valleys of Fassa and Rendena
- muleta: A Carnival dance
- pas in amur: A Carnival dance
- passo brabante: An alternate term for the saltarello
- passu'e trese: A Sardinian folk dance
- perigurdino: A skipping dance from the area around Pavia
- piana: A skipping dance from the area around Pavia
- povera donna: A skipping dance from the area around Pavia, a Carnival ritual dance
- pizzica tarantata: An old form of the tarantella
- rezianka zagatina: A folk dance
- roncastalda: A folk skipping dance
- rose e fiori: A Carnival dance
- ruggero: A folk skipping dance
- russiano: A folk dance, said to originate in Russi
- sa seria: A Sardinian folk dance
- saltarella: A variant name for the saltarello
- saltarelle: A variant name for the saltarello
- saltarello: A widespread, leaping folk dance, originally in 3/4 time, and later in 3/8 and 6/8, derived from a court dance that evolved from the galliarde and was originally known in Spain as the alta danza, from saltare, to leap
- savatarelle: A variant name for the saltarello
- sos gocios: A Sardinian folk dance
- sos mutos: A Sardinian folk dance
- sposina: A skipping dance for brides from the area around Pavia
- stuzzichetto: A variant name for the saltarello
- su ballu: Popular Sardinian dances
- ta matianowa: A folk dance
- ta palacowa: A folk dance
- ta panawa: A folk dance
- tammorriata or tammuriata: A Campanian couple dance, accompanied by lyric songs called strambotti and tammorra tambourines
- tarantel: An alternate term for the tarantella
- tarantella: A couple dance in 6/8 time, intended to cure the supposedly poisonous bite of the tarantula
- tarantismo: An Apulian term for the tarantella healing ritual
- tarantolati: The tarantella ritual as it is practiced in Puglia
- tarentella: An alternate term for the tarantella
- tarentule: An alternate term for the tarantella
- ballo tondo: An alternate term for ballu tundu
- ballu torrau: A Sardinian folk dance
- trescone: A folk dance, one of Italy's oldest
- ballu tundu: The launeddas dance
- ballu tzopu: A Sardinian folk dance
- ballo della Veneziana: A 2/2 dance of Venetian origin
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“I tell you the dances we had were really enough,
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—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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Annie: Pavaliver—the Russian dancer. Don’t be so ignorant.”
—Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)
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