Greek dances

thumb|Detail from Book frontispiece|frontispiece to Thomas Wilson Correct Method of German and French Waltzing (1816), showing nine positions of the waltz, clockwise from the left (the musicians are at far left). At that time, the waltz was a relatively new dance in England, and the fact that it was a couples dance (as opposed to the traditional group dances), and that the gentleman clasped his arm around the lady's waist, gave it a dubious moral status.

thumb|Sirtaki flash mob at Accroche-Cœurs festival.

type of circle dance originating in the Balkans

thumb|left|Fast Hasapikos in the atrium of the Zappeion on March 3, 1926.

The Kalamatianós (, ) is one of the best-known dances of Greece. It is a popular Greek folk dance throughout Greece, Cyprus and internationally and is often performed at many social gatherings worldwide. As is the case with most Greek folk dances, it is danced in chain with a counterclockwise rotation, the dancers holding hands. thumb|left|Dance in the atrium of the Zappeion on March 3, 1926 It is a joyous and festive dance; its musical beat is , subdivided into of three parts of 3+2+2 beats, corresponding to 3 steps per bar. There are 12 steps in the dance corresponding to 4 bars of music. T

traditional dance in Albania (mainly danced by Cham Albanians) and Greece that bears the name of Osman Taka, a 19th-century oscure figure of a Muslim Cham Albanian guerilla fighter who fought against Ottoman forces

Halay is the national dance of Turkey. It refers to all traditional circular and line dances performed across the country. The term is used among Turks, Kurds, Araps, and Asia Minor Greeks (particularly Pontic Greeks, Karamanlides, and Cappadocian Greeks).

1803 mass suicide in the Greek War of Independence

The Tsamikos (, Tsamikos) or Kleftikos () is a popular traditional folk dance of Greece, done to music of 3/4 meter.

Tamzara is an Armenian folk dance native to the Armenian Highlands. In Armenia the dance originally had a ritual character, it was a wedding song and dance. Now "Tamzara" has lost its former ritual significance, when it was performed during almost all community events and parties. It is today performed by Armenians, Assyrians, Azerbaijanis (in the regions of Sharur, Nakhchivan and parts of Iranian Azerbaijan), Greeks and Turks. In post-Soviet Armenia, tamzara dance is gaining more and more popularity among all strata of the population.

Zeibekiko (, ) is a Greek folk dance, similar to Turkish Zeybek dance.

Syrtos is a traditional Greek dance in which the dancers link hands to form a chain or circle, headed by a leader who intermittently breaks away to perform improvised steps.

Tsifteteli () or Çiftetelli, is a rhythm and belly dance of Anatolia and the Balkans (particularly Greece). In Turkish the word means "double stringed", taken from the violin playing style that is practiced in this kind of music. There are suggestions that the dance existed in ancient Greece, known as the Aristophanic dance Cordax. It became popular in Greece through the Greek-Turkish population exchange of 1923. Despite this, it has established itself as the most popular and most common Greek dance together with Zeibekiko. Nowadays it is found not only in Greece and Turkey, but also in the en

group denoting Greek dances, both traditional folk and modern

thumb|300px|upright=1.3|Horon with kemenche thumb|300px|right|Children from Turkey perform folk dance

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Dance during Byzantine Empire