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Epirus Cultural Heritage Unfolds at Athens Ancient Theater

The Panepirotic Confederation of Greece, the organization that keeps the customs alive and promotes the rich history and culture of Greece’s Epirus region, will hold a big musical, theatrical and dance performance in Athens' odeon of Herodes Atticus, under...

Hundreds Join Spectacular Chain Dance in Greece's Chios (video)

Hundreds of dancers joined hands in the port of the Greek island of Chios on Wednesday to offer a spectacular performance of traditional Greek dances from the Aegean. Dressed in traditional clothing, they danced the syrtos, an ancient chain dance...

Greek Girl Sends Internet Wild with Zeibekiko Dance (video)

A young Greek girl has stunned a crowd of tourists and local people by performing an amazing Greek dance called the zeibekiko on the island of Kastellorizo. The scene, captured by Cibele Almeida, a visitor to the island, had gone viral...

Spectacular Display of Greek Dance in Mykonos (video)

Dozens of amateur dancers have taken over the pier at Gialos in Mykonos in a spectacular display of the traditional 'hasapiko'. The annual event marks the beginning of the tourist season in the cosmopolitan island and it aims to show that...

VASSY’s ‘Nothing to Lose’ Hits #1 on US Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqVkaLogLBM VASSY's new solo song "Nothing to Lose" hit #1 on US radio last week, rising to the top on every dance radio station in the US - an amazing achievement for the singer's first standout single. VASSY sailed right past...

Watch Euripides Laskaridis' 'Relic' Performing at BIOS in Athens

After a successful and much-discussed European tour taking in 18 international festivals and 10 European countries, the irreverent solo dance performance "Relic" by Euripides Laskaridis and the Osmosis team will be showing for three nights at BIOS in Athens. The...

Watch Pina Bausch’s 'Sweet Mambo' in Athens November 3-6

"I am trying to talk about the life that surrounds us, the existence for us. And the problem is that life cannot always be danced to traditional aesthetic forms," the legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch once said to describe...

Did the Ancient Greeks Twerk? ‘Twerkumentary’ Says Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiVil0Fq0Io There's a fun new documentary out, or rather, "Twerkumentary", that says the phenomenon of twerking may have roots going back to the ancient Greeks. Italian filmmaker Spaghetto, along with cinematographer Gianfilippo de Rossi, tries to trace the roots of twerking and...

Romania’s Syrtaki World Record Hopes Dashed by Rain, Greece Still the Record-Holder (Video)

Romanian hopes of setting a Guinness Book World Record for dancing Greece's famous syrtaki dance from the 1964 film "Zorba the Greek" were dashed over the weekend. A storm struck the Black Sea port on Saturday making the ability...

Greek Artist Among UK’s ’16th National Dance Awards’ Nominees (Video)

  The Dance Section of the Critics' Circle has recently announced the full list of nominees for the 16th National Dance Awards, based on talented artists' work performed in the United Kingdom between September 1, 2014 and August 31, 2015. The...