Voglio vederti danzare - I Want to See You Dancing

Voglio vederti danzare Come le zingare del deserto Con candelabri in testa O come le balinesi nei giorni di festa Voglio vederti danzare Come i Dervisches Tourners Che girano sulle spine dorsali O al suono di cavigliere del Katakali E gira tutt'intorno la stanza Mentre si danza, danza E gira tutt'intorno la stanza Mentre si danza E Radio Tirana trasmette Musiche balcaniche, mentre Danzatori bulgari A piedi nudi sui braceri ardenti Nell'Irlanda del nord Nelle balere estive Coppie di anziani che ballano Al ritmo di sette ottava Gira tutt'intorno la stanza Mentre si danza, danza E gira tutt'intorno la stanza Mentre si danza Nei ritmi ossessivi la chiave dei riti tribali Regni di sciamani E suonatori zingari ribelli Nella Bassa Padana Nelle balere estive Coppie di anziani che ballano Vecchi Valzer Viennesi Voglio vederti danzare © 1982 Franco Battiato Of "Voglio vederti danzare," Battiato said, "I find dance to be a very high expression of culture. I don't mean folkloric dance, but rather the type of dance-quest that desires to break out of the body." Also, "These women . . . have a shared body language. In their hands and in their movements are hidden secret codes. You feel that there is an ancient wisdom that passes through their body." (from interviews with Franco Pulcini)

I want to see you dancing like the gypsies of the desert with candelabras on their heads, or like the Balinese during festival days. I want to see you dance like the Whirling Dervishes who spin on their backbones, or to the sound of ankle bracelets of the Kathakali. And spin all around the room while you dance, dance. And spin all around the room while you dance. And Radio Tirana broadcasts Balkan musics, while Bulgarian dancers barefoot on the hot coals; in Northern Ireland in the summer dance halls, couples of oldsters who dance to a 7/8 rhythm. Spin all around the room while you dance, dance and spin all around the room while you dance. In the obsessive rhythms the key of the tribal rites, kingdoms of shamans and wild gypsy players. In the lower Po in the summer dance halls, elder couples who dance to old Viennese waltzes. English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser L'arca di Noe was released in 1982. Giusto Pio collaborated on the musical compositions and arrangements. After its release, there were some critics who began to reassess Battiato and who charged him with putting forward right-wing ideas. To which Battiato responded, "Stupidly, there are those who have defined me as 'idealogue of the new right,' but in reality I am a conservative, in the ancestral sense. Because I think that all the current technological and scientific development, indeed a sort of neo-religion, has strongly deteriorated the qualities of man. And I, to the contrary, am for the recovery of the best traditions of civilized man." These charges led Battiato to avoid encounters with both the press and the public and concentrate on his work in the studio as producer and writer for other artists.

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