This particular book covers only the dances of the Serres Prefecture of Greece (in red, pop.175,000) where she spent many years researching the dances of about 82 villages and towns, documenting about 330 dances.īy documenting I mean witnessing them in person when possible, combing through archives, interviewing people who could no longer dance but recalled the dances of their youth, and recording the names of dances, even when the name was the only information an informant could supply. I have two reputable written sources for the topic of repertoire at my fingertips – first from A Nest of Gold by Yvonne Hunt, to my mind one of the best authorities in English on Greek dance, published by the Center for the Study of Traditional Dance “Kyklos” in Thessaloniki, 2014. Although I have lots of books about the folk dances of particular countries, very few of them discuss the topic of repertoire – particular dances, regional dances, dance occasions, but not the size and composition of a village’s repertoire.
Would you have a source for that? Really that many different dances, or could it be that many different tunes (fewer different dances)? Just curious.”Īnswer: My opinion is based on verbal accounts from many instructors, as well as readings from many sources over many years. I see that you write that smallish villages usually had 20 to 50 dances in their repertoire. Lawrence Kirkendall form Bergen, Norway writes: “I just discovered your website, what a resource!….Ī question for you.
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