Spoon Dance In The Hippocampus
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The Spoon Dance Apparently, Orthodox Christians danced the choros koutalia (spoon dance) in the Greek cultural regions from ancient times through to the nineteenth-century multinational Ottoman Empire—probably alongside Ottoman spoon dance variations from their Islamic neighbors. In the dance, each dancer has a pair of wooden spoons in each hand with which they clap out a rhythm supplemental to the music, while their feet dance a different step rhythm. The development and tradition of the dance presumably came to a halt because of the forced displacement of Greeks living in Turkey and Turks living in Greece (according to the 1923 Lausanne Treaty). Today the popular dance has almost disappeared and lacks study. next >

Bettina Henkel, Secession 2004