Kallinitikos

Rhythm

Medium

Formation

Groups of three: a man between two women, or a woman between two men.

Occasion

Wedding

Character

• Joyful
• Playful

Who dances it: Everyone

A wedding dance done in groups of three. It is named after the kalines, the bride's girlfriends, who danced it as they escorted her to church. It belongs to the repertoire of the Greeks of Northern Thrace (Eastern Rumelia) and is also danced in Western Thrace.

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What they wear

• Women’s festive costume Eastern Thrace Women’s
• Men’s festive costume Eastern Thrace Men’s

Where it’s danced

• Eastern Thrace · origin
• Thrace · also danced here

In the Dora Stratou Theatre archive

The Greek Dance Pandect records this dance. Each item opens on its own website.

Kalinitikos or Kallinitikos: Dance in Northern Thrace.

Places in the archive

• Katerini · Pieria
• Thrace

Videos 6

• Καλινίτικος Thrace · [VC00042] /I4
• Καλινίτικος Thrace · [VD0121] /K3
• Καλινίτικος Thrace · [VC00049] /B3
• Καλινίτικος Kitros · [VD0076] /U1
• Καλλινίτικος Thrace · [VT00015] /C08
• Καλλινίτικος Thrace · [VT00016] /A3

Recordings 2

• Ισια πάν-Καλλινίτικος Thrace · [AR1320] /02
• Καλινίτικος (Χορός γάμου) Thrace · [AR0776] DORA STRATOU DS 101 /05

Photos 2

• Φεστιβάλ "Αναπάλη" Χορευτικών Ομάδων Αποδήμων Ελλήνων - Το συγκρότημα της Μητρόπολης Βοστόνης, Η.Π.Α. Eastern Thrace · [Pict_T V02] /2210
• Φεστιβάλ "Αναπάλη" Χορευτικών Ομάδων Αποδήμων Ελλήνων - Το συγκρότημα της Μητρόπολης Βοστόνης, Η.Π.Α. Eastern Thrace · [Pict_T V02] /2203

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