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Katiouska

Κατιούσκα

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Rhythm: 6/8, 3/4 · Medium
Formation: Open circle, mixed, hands joined.
Instruments: Clarinet, Violin, Laouto, Defi (frame drum)
Occasion: Village festival, Gathering

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Who dances it: Everyone

A dance that often closes the feast in Northern Epirus villages, in 6/8 or 3/4, with a phrase of twenty moves in ten motifs of two. The name may be linked to the Russian song 'Katyusha', or may be a corruption of 'Baidouska', which it resembles in movement. Three different sets of lyrics, from different periods, are sung to the same melody; the newest is about a woman of Dropoli and the villages emptied by emigration.

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