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Folklore Tradition

Traditional Music and Songs

The Dance Groups.
 We should pay particular attention to the frequent reports of Davlia in traditional songs. The greeks lived throughout their path of history an intense life. They struggled, they fought, they loved and hated, enjoyed but also cryied like no other nation in the world. And all this, they transform it into a song. Hence, the traditional greek song is a creation of an anonymoys poet, the Greek people and it is the mirror of the greek soul and life. With a unique way the traditional songs are accompanied by the clarinet that with its sweet sound makes the brain of a person to travel and the body to dance with with proudness. Indicatively we mention bellow two small extracts:

«Η μάχη της Αράχωβας»

«...Εκίνησε ο Μουστάμπεης στην Αράχωβα να πάγη στη Δαύλεια στήνει το ορδί, στένει και τα τσαντήρια».

«Κατακαϋμένη Αράχωβα»

«...Κατακαϋμένη Αράχωβα, το Δίστομο κι Δαύλεια Νταβέλη Νταβέλη, μωρέ Χρήστο Νταβέλη. Τους κλέφτες τι τους κάνατε και τους Κακαραπαίους; Στο Ζεμενό τους έχουμε, τους πολεμάει ο Μέγας, Ο Μέγας απ' την Αράχωβα κι ο Λουκάς απ' τη Δαύλεια»


Traditional Dances

Traditional Uniforms.
 Dance is the rhythmical movement of one or more persons that is executed with the escort of music or song. The Greeks believed that the dance was a gift of gods to the humans in order to be able to forget, through dancing, from the labours and the sadnesses of their life. Descriptions of dance can be found in ancient texts and also are written by Omiros (Homer). It was said that the human soul, was releived by her passions with the specialised movements of the various dances. For this reason they devised religious dances, martial dances, theatrical dances, dances for training or for conferences. The «Sirtos» dance was of the Byzantines and was danced from many dancers holding each other from their hands or with neckerchiefs bewteen their hands. During the period of Ottoman domination, the dance, in combination with the song, constituted a powerful weapon adversely in the alienation and the loss of National conscience. It is important to be pointed out that during that period many new types of dances are being born that describe heroic achievements and big moments of Greece that strengthened even more the moral resistance of the slaves. The most significant dances that are located in central Greece are:
The SIRTOS DANCE. One of the older dances is "sirtos". It is danced for 3.000 years and still continues nowadays. It is a circular dance which the dancers, men or women, are touched hand by hand and dance circularly.
The KALAMATIANOS DANCE. Its name comes from Peloponnese, there where it was also created.
The CHASAPIKOS or SIRTAKI dance as later on it was renamed by the French and originates somewhere in the Byzantin.
The DOCTOR (YIATROS) DANCE. It is a recent dance that was established after the war and it is danced by men and women, with handhold by the palms and with bented elbows. It took his name from lyrics of a song.


Traditional Costumes

 In each region of Greece people wear different traditional uniforms. In the islands the men wear a uniform called "knickers". In central Greece, Peloponnese and the Continent the men wear a Greek kilt with a shirt, a vest and also rustic shoes. The women wear far wide white skirts, woolen embelished vest and an apron. While in their head they bring a white veil. The fabrics are made from the women themselves in the loom and all the uniforms have rich decoration.





 

 



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The present website was financed by Regional Operational Program of Sterea Hellas 2000-2006 - Axis 1 and was part-financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund - Department of Orientation.

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