Sarı Zeybek by Can Dündar6/29/2023 The Zeybekika of 9/4 These are called varia Zeybekika (heavy or very slow) or vrakadika 1 (because they were danced by the old men in Lesvos who wore “vraka” breeches). And these are divided into the Zeybek dances of the 9/4 Zeybekika and the 9/8, which include the faster Karsilamas, Aptalikos Karsilamas and the Kamilierikos. Rhythm Patterns The Zeybek rhythm pattern types fall into two categories - 9/4 Zeybekika and the 9/8 Zeybekika. Even today new Zeybek dances are written by the newer generation of composers and are danced in clubs by the younger generation. When the phonograph recording units were available in Athens older musicians from Smyrni started to record traditional dances on record, while as a popular dance they started to record new Zeybek dances from the ’30s. In the ’70s it became acceptable for women to dance it too. As it was an exclusively male dance it became a trademark for the males to dance and show their dancing abilities in public. Their dances spread to the Greek Islands of the Aegean coast, and then, later, after the Greeks left Asia Minor, to the rest of Greece. The Zeybek Rhythms and Dances of Greece and Lesvos Island By Panagiotis Agiakatsikas The Greek Zeybek dances (Zeybekika) derive directly from the Zeybeks of Minor Asia.
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