Rougatsiarikos

Rhythm

Fast

Formation

Free, without a hold; the dancers go from neighbourhood to neighbourhood.

Instruments

Clarinet, Violin, Laouto

Occasion

Feast day

Character

• Energetic
• Joyful

Who dances it: Everyone

The dance of the "rougatsiaria", the groups who go round the villages of the Thessalian plain, such as Farsala, Pedino in Karditsa and Tyrnavos, over the Twelve Days and on Epiphany. It is a leaping dance without a hold, with six steps like the first ones of the kalamatianos, and dancers improvise freely.

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What they wear

• Women’s festive costume Thessaly Women’s
• Men’s festive costume Thessaly Men’s

Where it’s danced

• Thessaly › Larissa · origin
• Thessaly › Karditsa · origin

In the Dora Stratou Theatre archive

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

Rogatsariko or Rougatsiarikos: Dance in Western Macedonia. Other names: Beggarly, Logatsarikos, Rogatsarikos, Rogatsiarikos.

Places in the archive

• Vavdos · Chalkidiki
• Naousa · Imathia
• Imathia
• Thessaly
• Meliki · Imathia
• Palamas · Karditsa

Videos 1

• Διακονιάρικος Imathia · [VC00041] /B1

Recordings 2

• Ρογκατσάρικο ή Διακονάρικο Macedonia · [AR238] /11
• Ρογκατσάρικο ή Διακονιάρικο (χορός) Macedonia · [DS1003] DORA STRATOU DS 103 /11

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