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Sousta of Samos

Σούστα Σάμου

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Rhythm: 2/4 · Fast
Formation: In couples or in a circle, depending on the local form.
Instruments: Violin, Laouto, Santouri
Occasion: Wedding, Village festival

Character

Who dances it: Couples

The Samian form of the sousta, the springy dance that almost every Aegean island has in its own version. On Samos it is danced in several local variants, such as the kalabaktasiotikos (from the village of Kalabaktasi) and the abbas, and the island's dance associations teach it. Its steps are unrelated to the Cretan or Rhodian sousta.

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