We are doing a fake Tarantella in our current Pantomime. I just told the cast to lift one arm after the other and leap in the air landing on alternate feet - in time to the music. Then add a few twirls. (Only one cast member is actually a dancer.) It loooks good. We'd all seen a real Tarantella on film at one time or another.

Here in Aus. Lola Montez wowed us in the 19th century - on the goldfields, with her fake Tarantella. It involved searching among layers of clothing for a spider and exposing selected bits of her body. She was a sensation, I hear. Then George Coppin did his parody dance as Billy Barlow. The ghosts linger in some of our minds.
Good luck Dazbo.
Cheers, Joy