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Zervos

Ζερβός

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Rhythm: Medium
Formation: Open circle, hands joined, moving to the left.
Instruments: Violin, Laouto, Accordion, Gaida (bagpipe)
Occasion: Village festival, Wedding

Character

Who dances it: Everyone

A dance of the Greeks of Northern Thrace (Eastern Rumelia) that, as its name says ('zerva', left), moves to the left, against the direction of most Greek dances. Refugees who settled in Macedonia and Thrace brought it with them, and there are local forms such as the zervos of Bania. It is unrelated to the Karpathos dance of the same name.

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What they wear

Where it’s danced

Eastern Thrace · origin
Macedonia · brought by refugees
Thrace · brought by refugees

In the Dora Stratou Theatre archive

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

Zarvodexos or Zervodexios (Two-Handed): Dance in Dodecanese. See also: Two-Way.

Places in the archive

Chalki · Dodecanese
Dodecanese
Rodos · Rhodes
Leros
Afantou · Rhodes
Dodecanese