Maleviziotis

Rhythm

2/4 · Fast

Formation

Circle, mixed, palms joined at shoulder height with elbows bent; eight steps forward and eight back.

Instruments

Cretan lyra, Violin, Laouto, Askomantoura (bagpipe), Mandolin

Occasion

Village festival, Wedding, Feast day

Character

• Energetic
• Joyful

Who dances it: Everyone

A fast, lively leaping dance from the Malevizi district west of Heraklion, and one of the four pan-Cretan dances. In Heraklion (old Kastro) it was called "Kastrinos pidichtos", and in Chania "Kastrini sousta". The leader improvises with crouches, slaps on the legs (talimia), leaps and turns in the air. In 2023 it was added to Greece's National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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What they wear

• Women’s festive costume Crete Women’s
• Men’s festive costume Crete Men’s

Where it’s danced

• Crete › Heraklion · origin
• Crete · also danced here

In the Dora Stratou Theatre archive

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

Kastrinos: Dance in Northern Thrace. See also: Round Dance (Thrace).

Places in the archive

• Rhodope
• Thrace
• Karyai · Eastern Thrace
• Koufalia · Thessaloniki

Recordings 2

• Καστρινό [MC00037] P.M.cd2 /A05
• Καστρινός Thrace · [DS1219] CD-ΨΔΕΛ.ΚΕ.ΛΑ.Μ. 1994-1 /08

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