Workshops with Christiana – Spring – Summer 2015

Workshops with Christiana – Spring – Summer 2015
Dates	Place / Workshop topic	Associations
20 – 22/ 3	Barcelona, Spain: «Dances from the Greek islands»	Association ‘Passaltpas’
7 – 14/4	Ikaria, Greece: «Greek dance and Greek language Easter Workshop» (with Makis Evangelou from Samos)	IkariaDance Project of Ikaria- Holidays Company www.ikariadance.com
18 – 26/4	Vannes, France «Dances from the Greek islands» (with Jean Alex Benetto)	Association ‘Europa Danses’ jperchoc@wanadoo.fr
28/6 – 3/7	Ikaria, Greece: «Greek Traditional songs and their dances» - Workshop with the singer Katerina Papadopoulou	Ikaria- Holidays Company
3/7 – 15/8	Ikaria, Greece: «Greek dances from Ikaria and all Greece» - Workshop for beginners and intermediate dancers during the Ikaria Greek Language & Culture Project	Ikaria- Holidays Company
23 – 31/8	Ikaria, Greece: IKARIADANCE PROJECT 2015 – Workshop for dancers of Greek dances: Dances from Ikaria, Chios, Samos, Asia Minor and Crete with Christos Theologos, Makis Evangelou, Yannis Plagiotakis, Nikos Koufakis and the collaboration with Etepo association and Choros association.	Ikaria- Holidays Company www.ikariadance.com

To Alati tis Gis - A tribute to the violin and Kyriakos Gouvendas - Etepo dancing Asia Minor dances

The association ETEPO with Christos Theologos and dancers participated in the TV broadcast "To alati tis Gis" dancing dances from Asia Minor honoring Kyriakos Gouvendas, one of the top violinists of traditional music in Greece today. 


The whole emission on the channel Nerit Web TV: Το Αλάτι Της Γης - 08Φεβ2015 - Ο Κυριάκος Γκουβέντας και η τέχνη στο λαϊκό βιολί»

αποκριάτικα - carnival dances

Dear IkariaDance friends,
Yesterday, it was Tsiknopempti! The Thursday all people eat meat and have a carnival "glendi", since Clean Monday and abstinence from meat is coming soon!

During the carnival time men were mostly dancing dances with carnival songs. Some carnival dances and songs are called "indecent" as they represent more "primitive" rural rituals with traditional symbols evoking fertility dances and referring to the lower part of the body and its natural functions. As it is written by the anthropologist Miranda Terzopoulou in the wonderful CD "Ta Apokriatika" of Domna Samiou, who did research on the matter: " In its current form, acquired for the most part during the Byzantine era, Carnival includes a wide range of extremely old customs (…) with a magical but also particularly recreational character. (…) Within the context of this reversal of the value system, loos talk, obscenity, the violation of strong taboos, desecration of sanctity, and flagrant sexuality all become legitimized."

Here is a video of the wonderful performance of some of these songs by Domna Samiou (Thessaloniki, 2003)

And some pictures of me and friends dancing the "Ikarian Pepper dance", to Kariotiko Piperi, during a Workshop of dances in Athens, in Etepo association last week! Dimitris was playing the tsabounofylaka and the violin, Paraskevas the lute, Lazaros the percussion and Katerina with us were singing!... The pictures are taken by the friend and talented amateur photographer Tryfonas.

Enjoy!

Christiana

DANCE AND CULTURE PROJECTS 2015 in IKARIA

DANCE AND CULTURE projects 2015 in IKARIA

organized by IkariaHolidays 
with the support of cultural associations ETEPO and CHOROS and Cavos Bay hotel

Dates	Basic Program
7 - 14 April 2015 IkariaDance Easter Project 2015	A group of spring lovers sharing dances and Easter culture in Ikaria… Workshops of dance, songs, anthropology on Easter customs and optionally Greek language, cooking, hiking…
23 -31 August 2015 IkariaDance Summer Project 2015	Dance workshop, Songs, Percussions…"Panigiria"… and lots of "glendia" around, as you know them already!
28 June – 3 July 2015 NEW: “Song’s workshop with Katerina”	Workshops on traditional songs from different areas of Greece with the singer Katerina Papadopoulou and some dancing with Christiana.  Limited number of participants.
29 June – 31 August NEW: Greek language and culture workshops	Greek Language and Culture workshops in Armenistis of Ikaria with specialized teachers (programs of 1 or 2 weeks)
Organisation tip: air tickets to Ikaria from Athens are open to be booked www.olympicair.com. Contact for more info: Project Coordinator: Christiana Katsarou Email: christiana_katsarou@hotmail.com Fb: Christiana Katsarou

Καλή Χρονιά! Happy New Year! Bonne Annee!

Καλή Χρονιά! Ηappy New Year! Bonne année! 

We wish you that 2015 is happy, creative, full of music and dances...

2014 has left us with memories of wonderful but also difficult things we have shared together… Some nice memories: a few photos from our trip to Ikaria in August 2014 and the IkariaDance 2014 project with a  version of New Year's Carols from Ikaria - Fourni as performed by Eleftheria Arvanitaki: 

And some good news: a new association was born on Christmas in Samos with Makis Evangelou and many friends. Its name: ΧΟΡ.Ο.Σ. (Χορευτικός Όμιλος Σάμου = Dance Club of Samos) dedicated to the study and promotion of the culture of  Samos, Ikaria and Fourni!  A wonderful first year to come for this new association with many activities!

Have a happy dancing new year! 

Christiana and IkariaDance family and friends

About the lifestyle of Ikaria - DW

"We were not rushed in anyway…" 
" What we do not have the time to do today….. God gave us tomorrow to complete it!"…
Enjoy this DW short film on Ikaria and its lifestyle...

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmMyucF1yxg

Acrostiche en mémoire de Nicoletta

Our friend Marie-Amina Belguedj has written a touching poem for our friend Nicoletta…
In French and translated in Italian by Anne- Marie Meyssonier…

Un grand merci a toutes les deux...

Αcrostiche 

en mémoire de Nicoletta  

Nicoletta aux racines

Italiennes, mais à l’âme Ikariote

Chaleureuse, au charme discret, en

Osmose parfaite avec la nature

Lumineuse de tout son être,

Est entrée dans sa demeure pour

Toujours où elle pourra danser des

Trata, des Kariotiko  comme un

Ange pour ses amis d’ici- bas.

©® Marie Amina Belguedj

A Marseille-Septembre 2014

Merci  à la vie de m’avoir donné l’occasion de la

 connaître vraiment  lors du stage d’Ikaria en 2008.

Je ne pourrais  plus danser un Ikariotiko sans penser à elle. J

  

ACROSTICO IN MEMORIA DI NICOLETTA 

Nicoletta, alle radici

Italiane, ma kariotina nell'anima

Calorosa, al fascino discreto, 

Ovunque in perfetta armonica col creato

Luminosa col tutto il suo essere

Entrata nella sua dimora dove

Tuttora e per sempre può ' ballare

Tratta, kariotiko come un

Angelo per i suoi amici di quaggiu'

Mille grazie alla vita che mi ha dato in dono di conoscerla veramente in Ikaria, al seminario del 2008. 
Non potrei più' ballare uno kariotiko senza pensare a lei J

©® Marie Amina Belguedj // Traduit par  Annie Meyssonnier

A Marseiile-Septembre 2014