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The latest workout craze? Belly dancing at JCU

What's all the fuss on campus every Tuesday night? The Matthew Online correspondents Tyler Flanagan and Liz Fleming report.

Tango time!

We sent The Matthew Online correspondent Elizabeth Fleming on a dangerous assignment this past week: learn to tango with a roomful of complete strangers at The Auditorium here in Rome. One evening, two feet, one qualified success.

A night of photos and dance for a good cause

By Graciela Chahin

ROME, March 3 -- On Friday, John Cabot University held a show called “Arcobaleno di Danza e Fotografia” ("Rainbow of Dance and Photography") to benefit the Italian Parkinson's Association, raising funds and raising awareness for dance therapy.

Francesca Maruffi began the evening with a reading entitled “Voci Del Silenzio” (Voices of Silence). Maruffi described how silence is “the voice of an unexplored world.” People's words are “a rainbow of sounds, thoughts, emotions, and a rainbow of infinite colors in a sky of quite words,” she said.

Then different dance routines were choreographed by Giovanna Ricci and Monia Schietroma. The dancers were from two dance schools, Latin Style and Rhythm Tap. They danced merengue, salsa, tap, and jazz among others.