March 21, 2010 meeting 
3:00 pm
Celest DiPietropaolo and his wife Marie DiCocco, who
make up the group Italian Village Music and Dance will
present a program describing the form and history of
traditional music and dancing performed in different
regions of Italy, including some demonstration and
audience participation. Celest was trained as a
mathematician and Marie as a biologist and both work in
the computer field but they have been researching,
exhibiting, and teaching Italian music and dance for over
25 years. In particular Celest has performed in all the
major festivals in the Washington area and has taught in
26 states and 50 cities all over the US. Both have spent
years living in the center of Italy and from that base
traveling all over Italy to document traditional music and
dance all over the country. Celest plays the accordion
and organetto and Marie sings and plays guitar and
percussion instruments. They have been regular
performers at Golden Festival in New York City since
2001, along with the Washington Folk Festival held at
Glen Echo Park. Recently, they taught and performed
traditional dances from Emilia-Romagna, Campania, and
Calabria for the Washington Revels Christmas Show.

ICS EVENTS
Social Meetings start at 3:00 PM on the third Sunday of
the month, September through May
at the Friendship Heights Village Center,
4433 South Park Ave, Chevy Chase, MD
(See map on this page or on last page of Poche Parole)

 

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