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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

"Gaitanaki"

"Gaitanaki",
maybe a funny name but is a traditional dance-like thing that many kids (and some older people) used to dance to their villages.
I'll try to explain to you what is that dance.
As you can see from the pictures, there is a high pale with some colorful ropes hanging down from the top of the pale. Around that pale, there are dancers in two circles, the one smaller than the other one.


As you can see from the picture, (I hope you can see the movement of the dancers) the dancers  at the small circle are dancing clockwise (holding their ropes) and the other to the opposite direction.
As the dance,  the "Gaitanaki" (the colorful ropes) starts to make a knot...

So then, all the dancers  begin to dance to the opposite direction that they were danced  to "untie" the knot!!!!!! 

All these beautiful things happened to Katerina's and Vaggelis's school....
Posted by Panos and Soula Family at 9:35 PM

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