greek and albanian dances/ traditional costumes are so alike. we should celebrate our similarities instead of pushing for differences and political hate.
@@skipeee3420 you make it sound like albanians didn‘t do shit. ali pasha tepelena is a prime example of someone who suppressed orthodox albanians (souliotes of himara and orthodox çame people) and he is cheered as a hero. arvanites got assimilated yes, but its a byproduct of every country with minorities, they fought for a free greece, no matter if it was helenes or arvanites. same is happening to the arbereshe people in italy, only a few still speak arbereshe. the younger generations sees themselves as italian. nothing is black and white in history.
I am taking Greek dance lessons at a local church to learn the steps so I can dance at the festivals. This video is done so well. The music & steps are so lovely. Much respect to our Greek brothers & sisters.🇬🇷 💙 🇦🇲 ❤️
Fantastic areay of Greek mainland. Islands & Pontic regional dances! My all time favorite are from the Macedonian, Pontiac & Clyclades regions of Greece
Long Live to our Greeks Brothers and Sisters. You are so talented and I learnt a lot of the Beautiful Greece that Love since many years now. We need more peacefull people like You. We are waiting for Assyrian Dances. Love from an Assyrian living in Paris 🇬🇷❤️
I think this was my favorite episode so far. The dances from Epiros reminded of my late father, who was from the town of Yannina. We lost him a year ago, but I feel he's still very much with me whenever I listen to those Iperotikia songs and view those dances. He also like a good Zemebitoko dance too!
@@VasilisDance Wow, small world! I'm so happy to "meet" you Vasili! Yannina holds a special place in my heart and I hope to visit someday after this pandemic.
Wow! Greek dances are the origin in the region and have influenced all neighbors! Love you Greece and your unique and incredible great culture! Thanks! 🇬🇷☦🏛🧿🕺🏻🏺🏔💃🏻🏖☀️🇬🇷
Πολύ ωραία! I missed so much Greek dance and Balkan dances,because of Corona we can not gather. You are amazing! I hope we encounter someday in Κωνσταντινούπολη and dance :)
@@VasilisDance Aslında Türkiye’de kaşık dansı Yörüklere (Türkmenler) aittir. Ege Bölgesi, İç Anadolu, Akdeniz’in Batısı, Karadeniz’in Batı bölgesine kadar yaygın geleneksel Yörük/Türkmen danslarıdır. 🙂
Gee I wonder why? Maybe to stole this dance from Greek culture? Try looking up tengrin religion And the music from that religion It is mongolmusic and singing That is turkish At
@@Makaidonas They stole nothing, they have a right to them just like you do because they are a mixed race just like you are and all of Balkans as well. Turks is just their current name just like your current name is Greeks but since the Hellenic times populations have moved and mingled. in 1980s Greece had over 600 villages that spoke Albanian/Arvanites as a first language and Izmir and the whole of western Turkey has a large population of Arnauts/Arvanites descent as well, just like in Albania there still are villages that speak Greek as a first language. Just because of the population exchanges after WWI do not think that there are no more Greeks in Turkey because only the Christian Greeks were moved the Greeks who had converted to Islam remained in Turkey. You yourself go get a DNA test and you will discover that only about 20% of your genetic make up is of the ancient Hellenes the other % is most likely Illyrian, Slavic, Roman, Levantine, Egyptian, Persian, Turkish, Arabic etc. etc.
Vasili mou!!! Bravo!!! I just love the way you danced all of them with so much love and care and integrity and the female parts too!!! The whole concept was wonderful. Bravo Bravo Bravo!!
Usually, folk dances are boring to me but your dancing skills in your videos stuck me for hours on RU-vid watching you. Speechless and a massive thank you..
You are a very talented dancer, able to incorporate accents of both the male and the female style of dancing. I really appreciate the video, keep making them, it is a great opportunity for the world to take a taste of the historic continuum of Greece's dance culture!
Utterly gobsmacked by both the dancing and the editing. I noticed Cyprus didn't make the list, I guess they have their own set of dances. I wonder if the dances of Southern Italy and Catalonia were influenced by the ancient Greek migrants as well. Μπράβο!
Omg ,you can lose a lot of weight doing these dances . Great exercise ,that's why you have muscular calve muscles . I am surprised there is no Greek aerobic village style dance class .
Many thanks for the lovely dance journeys you have offered us you are very hard working person and you deserve anyone's rewards and recognition for such a work! You are Very talanded and dedicated to what you have done and doing ! Keep going we love it! Thanks again! All the Best ❣️!
Άξιος! Μπράβο σου που μας αντιπροσωπεύεις τόσο εξαίρετα. Είμαι θρέμμα απογόνων Πόντου, Ιονίων Μικρασίας εξ Σμύρνης κ Χίο, γόνος Αλεξανδρειανόν Αιγύπτου μεγαλωμένος στην Αθήνα και προσφάτως άποικος Φιλαδέλφειας ΗΠΑ
I wonder if there's anything out there about how these dances changed and evolved over time. It'd be fascinating to know how similar or different these dances are to dances done by Ancient Greeks, or even further back with the Minoans
It is indeed very interesting! The Greek dances is a very old tradition, being referred to by authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Lucian. From the Bronze Age aka Minoan civilization, the most famous type of dances were the circular ones (same as today) and they were performed either by men or women. The only difference now to this is that it can be mixed by both men and women. Moving to Archaic and Classical period, the dance "Syrtos", for instance, was the most famous one and it was described by Lucian around AD 125-190... still danced today! Or when it comes to the Greek war dances, such as the Pyrrhichios dance, it was probably of Dorian origin and it was described by Plato as imitating by quick movements the ways in which blows and darts are to be avoided and also the modes in which an enemy is to be attacked. This dance was also described as a dance to be specifically from the city of Trapezus (modern day Trabzon, in Turkey) by Xenophon in his work "Anabasis" (370 BC). Pontic Greeks, mostly, still dance this dance. Last, I should mention Achilles since he danced the Pyrrhichios dance around the burning funeral of Patroclus during the Trojan War. :)
Soo good to see such a variety of folk culture dancing love the girl and boy video edit style. Any chance you doing a dapke special or Lebanese dapke in particular.
These are soooooo wonderful to watch! I'm Greek, a dancer and a film editor and these videos are just so captivating. I love how you capture the essence of the dances and pull us in with the video! Really well done.
Υπέροχο βίντεο . Καλή αρχή σε αυτό που έχεις ξεκινήσει και πιστεύω και τα υπόλοιπα να είναι το ίδιο εξαιρετικά σαν και αυτό . Δεν έχω λόγια . Συνέχισε έτσι 🙂🙂🙂
You must have spent so much energy in all this. I was looking for a summary of the main greek dance for a greek course presentation. That's a perfect material
Me gustan estas danzas griegas , los ritmos son seductores, tocan la sensibilidad y las pasiones humanas en expresiones, que invitan a danzar , Saludar desde Lomas de Polanco dé Guadalajara, México 🇲🇽
