Pontian Dance "Sera" Argonauts Komnini in Australia 1991

Описание: This is my home video of the Pontian Dance group Argonauts Komnini at "Pontiaki Estia" in Melbourne Australia 1991.

They dance the ancient "Pyrrhic" dance called "Sera". Made up of 2 sections. The slow start called "Atsiapat" (a name of a village in Pontos / Karadeniz - todays Turkey) and the "Tromakton" (meaning lively / scary) part. The name "Sera" comes from a village next to Trapezounta - Trabzon in Pontos (modern Northern Turkey) were it was said the best dancers came from (and still do !!)

Then 2 of the dancers break away to dance the knife dance "Pitchiak-oin" (Turkish for knife dance). It is mentioned also by Xenophon in his book "Anabasis" that 2 Thracian soldiers danced around the fire to entertain others, one pretends to be hit and is dragged off .....

This group has danced internationally all around the world, even seen at the Athens Olympics in 2004.

The first dancer is the dance teacher Christos Theodoridis (who also was the teacher at Dora Stratu dance academy).
Their names are christos theodoridis, leonidas, dimitris gourzoulidis,panagiotis apostolidis, nikos konstantinidis, giouras savinidis, kostas savinidis

On the Ndaouly(drum) is Theodoro Kotidis who is now a well know lyra / kemence player.


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