Konialis (spoon dance)

Rhythm

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Formation

Circle or face-to-face pairs; each dancer holds two wooden spoons in each hand and clacks them in rhythm.

Instruments

Violin, Oud, Toumbeleki (drum), Spoons, Defi (frame drum), Kemane

Occasion

Wedding, Gathering

Character

• Joyful
• Playful

Who dances it: Everyone

Named after Ikonio (Konya), it is based on the Karamanlidika song of the same name. Dancers hold four wooden spoons, two in each hand, and clack them like castanets, hence its other name, 'the spoon dance'. It has six steps over two bars and is accompanied by frame drum, violin and oud. It was danced by Cappadocian Greeks, Karamanlides and other Anatolian Greeks, and their associations in Greece keep it today.

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What they wear

• Women’s festive costume Cappadocia Women’s
• Men’s festive costume Cappadocia Men’s

Where it’s danced

• Cappadocia · origin
• Macedonia · brought by refugees
• Central Greece & Attica · brought by refugees

In the Dora Stratou Theatre archive

The Greek Dance Pandect records this dance. Each item opens on its own website.

Konialis: Dance in Asia Minor and in the Aegean Islands. Konialis means “from Ikonio” (Konia in Turkish).

Places in the archive

• Crete
• Krini · Asia Minor
• Thessaloniki
• Asia Minor
• Kioutacheia · Asia Minor
• Rodos · Rhodes
• Silli · Cappadocia
• Macedonia
• Sinopi · Pontus

Videos 7

• Κόνιαλι Asia Minor · [VC00062] /C3
• Κόνιαλι Asia Minor · [VC00034] /B3
• Κόνιαλι Asia Minor · [VD0196] /B.A5
• Κόνιαλι Kioutacheia, Ousak · /07
• Κόνιαλι Asia Minor · [VD0210] /A.C10
• Κόνιαλι Bafra · [VC00033] /E3
• Κόνιαλι Misti · [VD0070] /E3

Recordings 7

• Κόνιαλης Bafra · [DS1350] /10
• Κόνιαλης (κόνιαλης, παραδοσιακό) Asia Minor · [AR0566] ΙΝΤΕRSOUND 3055 /10
• Κόνιαλι Macedonia · [AR0312] EMIAL 14C 034-70759 /08
• Κόνιαλι Asia Minor · [AR0380] FMA CP 964 /04
• Κόνιαλι Pontus · [AR1439(e)] /14
• Κόνιαλι Asia Minor · [DS1593] /02
• Χορός Κουταλιών Ικονίου Cappadocia · [AR0245] LYRA MINERVA 22071 /07

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