Almost all variants of the Tarantellas passed on to the present day are very much connected to local religious festivals. They are not just a danced as an added extra, but are a direct expression of an autonomous popular devotion that is bound up with ecstatic forms of expression.

For a couple of years the tarantella has been experiencing some kind of Renaissance. Older artists from the folk scene of the 1970s and younger artists whose experience reaches as far as electronic music, as well as dancers and ethno-choreographers, have started to travel the same road both independently and together rediscovering the music and the dances of the tarantella, upgrading it and bringing it to a broader public.
The accent is put on its local-cultural identity, so that the Tarantella is already considered a local showpiece phenomenon.