Portrait of the greek dance
Transcript of Portrait of the greek dance
Dance has always
played an important role in the life of a Greek. It is an expression of human feelings and everyday life. The Greeks danced at religious festivals, ceremonies; they danced to ensure fertility; to prepare for war and to celebrate victories; they danced at weddings; to overcome depression and to cure physical illness. Almost every dance has a story to tell. Dance was regarded as one of the highest forms of art.
INTRODUCTION
“ The dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of the gods.” Plato
The Pyrrhic, or weapon
dance (a form of mock
combat) taken from Crete
and perfected in Sparta, was
the ideal.
Plato and his mentor
Socrates said that every
educated man should know how to dance gracefully by
which he meant the manly
exercises that kept the body strong and
ready to do its duty on the battlefield
TRADITIONAL DANCE & FOLKLORE Traditional dance continues to be passed
from generation to generation, which in turns maintains national identity. Folklore is the term used for traditional dance when performed out of its traditional social context. The principal characteristic of folklore dance is that it is not transmitted in a traditional manner but by a process involving dance teachers and gym instructors.
Greece has 6 mainland regions: Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, Thess
aly, Central Greece and Peloponnesus.
REGIONAL CHRACTERISTI
CS
The Greek islands fall into the
following categories. The Ionian islands
between Greece and Italy the Saronic islands near Athens, Cyclades occupying the central Aegean Sea,
the North Aegean islands close to the West coast of
Turkey, the Dodecanese islands, occupying the southeast of the Aegean, between Crete
and Turkey, the Sporades which are a
small cluster of islands near the island of Euboea, and Crete, the largest island which lies in the
southern part of the Aegean Sea.
Although Cyprus is an independent country, it is however the largest island inhabited by Greeks and
falls within the Greek major cultural regions.
THE GREEK ISLANDS
Asia Minor which is separated from Europe by the Bosporus, the Sea of
Marmara (Propondis) and the Aegean Sea was
previously inhabited by Greeks since ancient times but the majority have found refuge in
Greece following the Asia Minor Disaster and the
burning of Smyrni in 1922, Generally, Asia Minor
dances are divided into four
groups; Pontus, Cappadocia, the Coastal Regions
and the urban centres of Constantinople and
Smyrna.
ASIA MINOR
Ο Χορευτικός Όμιλος Θεσσαλονίκης ιδρύθηκε το
Δεκέμβριο του 1990. Στόχος του είναι η έρευνα του ελληνικού παραδοσιακού πολιτισμού, η διατήρηση και διάδοση της
ελληνικής παράδοσης μέσω των χορών και των τραγουδιών της
κάθε περιοχής της Ελλάδας. Έδρα του Χ.Ο.Θ. είναι η
Καλαμαριά