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Twenty Pontic Dances and Songs

Artist Dora Stratou
Title Twenty Pontic Dances and Songs
Release Date Saturday, December 31, 2016
Genre World > Eastern Europe
Copyright © DST
Country GERMANY

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Unesco world heritage museum of Greek Dance ... more than just Sirtaki

Dora Stratou (Greek(died1988) was a significant contributor to Greek Folk Dancing and Greek Folk Music. She issued one of the largest series of folk music in the world with 50 records and is the founder of
the Greek Dances-Dora Stratou Society.Her parents Maria Koromila and Nikolaos Stratos brought her up in the upper class urban environment of Athens at the beginning of the twentieth century, along with her brother Andreas Stratos.Dora Stratou wrote the book Greek Traditional Dances in 1979. It was printed by the Greek Educational Books Organisation in Athens 1979. She worked with Simon Karras and other ethnomusicologists. She maintained a record of traditions, recorded music, filmed dancers, interviewed villagers on dance topics, costumes,
folklore, etc.In her book she begins with the quote: I write what my eyes have seen, what went through my mind and what my soul fell in love with... Her true passion for Greek Dance led her to establish one of the most unusual living museums in the world, The Greek Dances Theatre in Athens. This theatre group dances the regional dances in Greece, the same way as they were done hundreds of years ago and the dancers still wear the authentic costumes of yesteryear. It is one of the finest living museums in Greece and unique in the world.The Greek
Dances theater is nowadays a host for other folkloric groups both within Greece and Internationally. The International Organisation of Folk Arts-Greece (UNESCO)
is also run from the main offices of the Dora Stratou.The theatre building is right at the foot of the Acropolis, in Athen’s center

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