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The Community The Community
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The Ritual: Babougera The Ritual: Babougera
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Olympic Games: The Ceremony of Ritual Olympic Games: The Ceremony of Ritual
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Dancescapes Dancescapes
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Notes Notes
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References References
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30 San Miguel the Arcángel, Capitan of Many Troops: An Ethno-Iconographic Study of Danza de Migueles
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24 Dancecapes of Dionysus: From Kali Vrisi (Northern Greece) to the Olympics
Get accessDr. Christos Papakostas recently landed a job position as a Lecturer at the University of Athens on the subject of Greek Traditional Dance. He is a scholar, master dance teacher and percussionist. For the past 20 years, he has served as a folklorist, choreographer, dance instructor, and percussion instructor for multiple performing groups. He has undergraduate degrees in physical education and sport science with specialty in Greek traditional dance; his dissertation focused on dances of the Roma (gypsy) community of northern Greece. He has published and presented numerous studies on Greek dance, music, folklore and anthropology; has taught at multiple universities in Epirus, Thessaly and Crete.
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Published:10 December 2015
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Abstract
This paper aims to study dance and its relation to the construction and the negotiation of cultural identity of the ethnic group of locals (dopioi) in the community of Kali Vrysi in the Prefecture of Drama, in Eastern Macedonia (Greece). The linguistic otherness (the villagers spoke a local Slav idiom) of Kalivrysians (Kalivrysiotes) in the past cast doubt on their Greekness. This resulted in social, ethnic, and cultural stigmatization of the community. The dancing ritual of babougera, characterized as distant echo of Dionysian cult, has a central role in the community’s identity formation. A recent example of the appearance of the babougera ritual, the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens (2004). In this dancescape of modernity, Kalivrysiotes negotiate their identity and appear as “super-Greeks.”
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