Karsilamas - Smyrna Izmir - Georgia Mittaki

Karsilama 9/8 fusion of Romanes / Gypsy, Turkish, and Greek folkloric styles with American Tribal Style / ATS bellydance. The music is vintage 1930s from Istanbul.



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Karsilamas is a Turkish folk dance spread all over Northwest Asia Minor and carried to Greece by Asia Minor refugees. The term "karsilamas" comes from the Turkish word "karsilama" meaning "face to face greeting"

The dance is still popular on Northwestern areas of Turkey, especially on wedding parties, festivals and so on, it also transformed itself into Zeybekikos dance in Greece. Name zeybekikos may be derived from another Asia Minor dance "zeybek" yet, the dance of zeybekikos as a form much more adopts Karsilama figures and creates mixed genre of dance in Modern Greece by having the Asia Minor figures from zeybek and karsilama.

Karsilamas is a couple dance that is still danced in what was the Ottoman Empire, from Persia to Serbia, and in the Macedonia and Thrace regions of Northern Greece.

Figures of the dance may vary from region to region but main theme is two people face each other, and music rythmically controls their next moves. Traditionally people dance without any figure on their minds, just figures they have seen from their elders.

The meter is 9/8, and the basic move is danced in four small steps with durations 2,2,2,3 respectively. The style and mood (bouncy, smooth, lively, etc.) vary depending on the region.

Rumeli Karşılaması, Trakya Karşılaması, Merzifon Karşılaması, Edirne Karşılaması, Gümülcine Karşılaması, Giresun Karşılaması, Taraklı Karşılaması, Bilecik Karşılaması, Old Karsilamas (Παληός Καρσιλαμάς), Pigi Karsilama(Πιγκί), Ayşe Karsilama (İskender boğazı)(Αϊσέ)(Η Αγάπη Είναι Καρφίτσα)(, Aptalikos Karsilamas (Απτάλικος),. Asia Minor Karsilamas (Melinos karsilamas

Smyrna, izmir



"Smyrna and its surroundings" The singer is Georgia Mittaki (Γεωργία Μυτάκη) - Composer: (Σταύρος Παντελίδης)

All pictures originate without exception from Smyrna. They reflect the multi-ethnical landscape, show importend buildings and sights of Smyrna before 1922. You also see the different quarters, parts and suburbs of the city, like "Karatas - Melantia", "Pagos - Kadifekale", "Göztepe - Enopi", "Karsiyaka - Kordelio", "Kokaryali", "Buca" and "Bornova - Bournobat".
The whole Greeks, Armenians and the most of Levantiner left the city 1922 and in the following years. Most Jews of Smyrna emigrated, after Israel was created.

To more information about the pictures and the cosmopolitical history of Smyrna please visit:
http://www.levantineheritage.com/index.htm

Arvanitaki singing a remake of " Argile mou giati Svinis "


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