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"Zorba's Dance" (Greek: Ο Χορός Του Ζορμπά) is an instrumental by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. [1] The music is part of the soundtrack for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, [2] and used in the film to accompany the dance known as sirtaki. It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas. The film's track has since been ...
LCD were a computer generated dance act, active in the late 1990s.Signed to Virgin Records, their only hit single was a Europop version of the Greek song "Zorba's Dance".The music video to the song, made in computerised animation, featured a band of overweight men playing the song.
Sirtaki or syrtaki [1] (Greek: συρτάκι) is a dance of Greek origin, choreographed for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. [2] It is a recent Greek folkdance, and a mixture of "syrtos" and the slow and fast rhythms of the hasapiko dance. The dance and the accompanying music by Mikis Theodorakis are also called Zorba's dance, the Zorba or "the ...
Djuki Mala, previously known as the Chooky Dancers, are a dance troupe from Elcho Island in the Northern Territory of Australia.They first came to attention through a YouTube video of them performing to Zorba the Greek while in ceremonial dress.
He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He was a three-time BAFTA nominee, winning for Z. [7] For the score in Serpico, he earned Grammy nominations. [8] Furthermore, for the score to Zorba the Greek, with its song "Zorba's Dance", he was nominated for a Golden Globe. [9]
Basil is a staid, somewhat buttoned-up, middle-class Greek-British writer raised in the United Kingdom.While at the Athens port of Piraeus waiting to catch a ferry to Crete he meets a middle-aged peasant and musician named Zorba who carries only a santouri in a case, in contrast to Basil's large quantity of luggage, including cases of books.
In the early 1960s, Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis based his theme music for the 1964 Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek (itself based on the novel by Cretan author Nikos Kazantzakis) on Cretan syrta that had been recorded earlier by Giorgis Koutsourelis, such as on the hasapiko dance. The new dance was named "sirtaki" by choreographer Giorgos ...
The book opens in a café in Piraeus, just before dawn on a gusty autumn morning sometime after the end of World War I.The narrator, a young Greek intellectual, resolves to set aside his books for a few months after being stung by the parting words of a friend, Stavridakis, who has left for the Russian Caucasus and Ukraine to help the Caucasus Greeks and Ukrainian Greeks who were facing ...