A group of school children from Turkey performs traditional Turkish and Greek dances at the summer festival of Symi. The spectators join the Hassaposerviko at the end. The similarity of Turkish with Greek dances, particularly with those of eastern parts of Greece and of the Greek minorities of Asia Minor, is remarkable. On the border between Europe and the Middle East, facing three seas, straddling important trade routes, Turkey has an ancient and complex culture, reflected in the variety of its dances. However its dance traditions are dominated by the influence of the Ottoman Empire. The dominant dance forms are types of line dance. Turkey is divided into cultural regions ech of which has distinctive dance styles: Trakya (European Turkey), Marmara (on the coast of the Sea of Marmara, Karadeniz (North-central, on the coast of the Black Sea), Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia, and Southeastern Anatolia. The costumes worn by the dancers are most often very colourful and represent happiness, but may also be very dull when a slow, depressing dance is performed. |
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