Banda Zazà

The show is an excursus in Neapolitan Classic Songs and Southern Italy Folk Songs.
Starting from Cafè Chantant , a style that took in Naples – in a neapolitan way – the success of the singers chanteuses/ sciantose of the Moulin Rouge with its amazing ironic songs, follow the classic neapoletan songs of ‘800 and ‘900, written by the greatest poets and musician of the time. There are a lot of beutiful songs of this period, so in add to choosing some of them to play from the beginning to the end, the program includes a Medley of a dozen well known neapolitan classical songs, each of them playd for a fragment.
Southern Folk Dances and Songs (tarantellas, tammurriatas and pizzicas) from the South, where also dance find place, follow.

The dancer is Gaia D’Elia who found her style using in Southern Italy Dances Sud some elements of brazilian samba.

In special situations there is the partecipation of the Sciantose (4 girls, dancing dressed in the manner of Scianose of Moulin Rouge, with feather on their head and very coloured and sensual dresses) - and Elvio Assunçao, who projects on italian Tradition his experience as contemporary and brazilian dancer.

The show works on the affinity between cultures, and among these is significant the nursery-rhyme talking about the black market in Naples in Second World War, at the end of the known song Tammurriata nera, well known for the interpretetion of Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare in the '70s - written by Eugenio cu ‘ e llenti (Eugene-with-glasses), grown in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro and moved to Naples in the early years of ‘900.