UPDATED AGAIN ON 12-25-16

UPDATED AGAIN ON 12-25-16

HELLO VIEWERS

I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS BECAUSE I TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN MY GREEK PONTIAC ANCESTRY, OTHERWISE KNOWN, IN THE HISTORICAL PAST,  AS "DORIAN GREEKS". 

US AND THE CRETANS, (FR0M THE ISLAND OF CRETE), ARE DORIAN GREEKS. THIS IS THE REASON OUR DANCES AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ARE SIMILAR.  FOR MORE INFORMATION ON DORIAN GREEKS, WHICH INCLUDES OTHER PARTS OF GREECE AND CHRONOLOGICAL PERIODS WHEN GREEKS WERE FIGHTING GREEKS IN THE ANCIENT GREEK TIMES, SEE THE LINKS BELOW:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dorian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAuYYBvULGA
DORIAN GREEKS (SPARTANS - MACEDONIANS).

http://www.historyforkids.net/the-dorians.html
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/ancient_greece.html
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/LX/Dorian.html
http://www.sfakia-crete.com/sfakia-crete/dorians-sfakia.html

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1438110200
- OR -
https://books.google.com/books?id=yyrao0dadqAC&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=ARE+SPARTans+dorian+greeks&source=bl&ots=y_OghAiyYy&sig=uuJdr4etADiXtLY1dktuDgx0dhw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhno_5wpDRAhUlxoMKHRh9Di84ChDoAQgxMAg#v=onepage&q=ARE%20SPARTans%20dorian%20greeks&f=false
"Sparta itself was founded by descendants of the DORIAN GREEKS "


http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Story_of_the_Greatest_Nations_and_the_Worlds_Famous_Events_Vol_1/dorianin_beb.html
Dorian Invasion
"A Dorian state was established at Sparta, which became in its turn the chief city of Greece"

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0009%3Achapter%3D3%3Asection%3D2
"Dorians were especially remembered as the ancestors of the Spartans,"

OUR PONTIAN GREEK DIALECT IS CLOSELY LINKED WITH THE ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE. IN THE LINK BELOW, THE BBC NEWS ARTICLE REFERENCES THE FACT THAT IN THE MOUNTAIN AREAS OF THE BLACK SEA OF TODAY'S TURKEY, THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE, OF GREEK DESCENT, WHO STILL SPEAK ANCIENT GREEK..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8520668.stm 
"Turkish mountains where they still speak Ancient Greek"

SOME OF OUR DANCES, SUCH AS THE "SERRA" DANCE, (otherwise known as The Pyrrhichios dance and / or Lazikon dance), WAS A MILITARY WAR DANCE OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS SUCH AS THE ANCIENT ATHENIANS, SPARTANS AND CRETANS, JUST TO NAME A FEW.

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZI1ZWont4
Πυρρίχιος ο Χορός των Θεών [Ντοκιμαντέρ]


IN ITS ORIGINAL ANCIENT GREEK FORM, THIS IS A RATHER LOUD, FAST, PHYSICALLY VIGOROUS AND HIGHLY CARDIOVASCULAR DANCE  WITH QUICK, AGRESSIVE AND COMBAT-LIKE MOVEMENTS WHOSE AIM WAS TO MOTIVATE THE MALE DANCERS AND TO PREPARE THEM FOR BATTLE.


ALTHOUGH THE SPEED AND AGRESSION OF SOME COMBAT-LIKE MOVEMENTS WERE TONED DOWN A BIT OVER THE YEARS, APPARENTLY FOR PURPOSE OF ENABLING A COMFORTABLE CIVILIZED PARTICIPATION BY MALES OF ALL AGES AND PHYSICAL ABILITIES, THE INTENSE AND QUICK MILITARY COMBAT - LIKE LEVEL AND STYLE IS STILL THE PREFERRED METHOD OF DANCING IT, ESPECIALLY AMONG YOUNG MEN WHO CAN HANDLE IT. 

THIS INTENSE MILITARY COMBAT-LIKE STYLE IS MOSTLY SEEN BEING EMPLOYED IN THE GREEK POPULATED AREAS OF THE BLACK SEA WHERE, MUCH LIKE THE ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE,  IT HAS BEEN PRESERVED UNCHANGED SINCE THE ANCIENT TIMES OF GREECE BY THE GREEK PONTIANS OF THIS REGION.

IN THE VIDEOS BELOW, YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE AGRESSIVE MILITARY COMBAT-LIKE STYLE  OF THIS DANCE, WHEN IT IS DANCED BY GREEKS AND TURKISH PEOPLE OF THE BLACK SEA REGION. NOTATIONS WERE MADE FOR THE VIEWERS'  IMMEDIATE CONVENIENCE

THE ALTERNATIVE NAME OF SERRA IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO THIS DANCE BY THE PONTIC GREEKS DUE TO THE RIVER SERRA WHICH IS SITUATED EAST OF TRAPEZUNTA (Trabzon), IN THE LAND PREVIOUSLY CALLED "GREECE" BUT PRESENTLY CALLED "TURKEY'.

AFTER INVADING OUR COUNTRY, THE TURKS ADOPTED MANY GREEK CULTURAL TRADITIONS, INCLUDING THE PONTIAN GREEK  OUTFITS AS WELL AS THE SERRA DANCE WHICH THEY MISREPRESENT AS A PRODUCT OF THEIR OWN FOLK CULTURE. THE TURKISH MISREPRESENTATIONS HAVE COME TO INCLUDE KNOWN FALSE CLAIMS THAT THE SERRA DANCE, WHICH THEY RENAMED "HORON", IS A TRADITIONAL TURKISH FOLK DANCE.

ALTHOUGH THESE TURKISH MISREPRESENTATIONS HAVE BECOME SOMEWHAT WIDESPREAD AND JUSTIFIABLY IRRITATING TO THE GREEKS, THE HISTORICAN RECORDS PROVE, BEYOND DISPUTE AND DOUBT, THE GREEK ORIGIN OF THIS DANCE AS WELL AS OF THE OUTFITS. THE NOTED HISTORICAL RECORDS CAN CLEARLY PROVE THAT SUCH A DANCE AND OUTFITS, ALONG WITH THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS USED, WERE NEVER PART OF THE TURKISH CULTURE OR HISTORY AND THAT THEY BECAME PART OF THE TURKISH CULTURE OR HISTORY AFTER THE TURKISH INVASION OF GREECE. 

FURTHERMORE, THE VERY FACT THAT THE TURKS NAMED THIS DANCE "HORON", IN IT OF ITSELF INDICATES THEIR KNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS A DANCE OF GREEK ORIGIN AND NOT OF TURKISH ORIGIN. THE WORD "HORON' IS A GREEK WORD AND IT MEANS "DANCE", BE IT IN MODERN GREEK AS WELL AS IN THE PONTIAN GREEK DIALECT.. THE TURKISH WORD FOR "DANCE"  IS SIMPLY "DANS".

AS A RESULT OF THESE HISTORICAL RECORDS, THE GREEK ORIGIN OF THE SERRA / HORON DANCE IS BEING ROUTINELY REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE WEB. PART OF THE NOTED HISTORICAL RECORD INCLUDES THE ILIAD, (8TH CENTURY BC), WHICH MENTIONS THIS WAR DANCE AND CALLS IT BY ITS ORIGINAL NAME, "Pyrrhichios"  IN THE ILIAD, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT ITS NAME IS DERIVED FROM "PYRA" OR "PYR" WITCH MEANS "FIRE" IN GREEK.  BECOMING "FIRED UP" FOR A BATTLE MUST HAVE BEEN THE IMPLICIT PURPOSE AND MESSAGE BEHIND THE NAME OF THIS DANCE  WHOSE STEPS, MOVEMENTS AND SPEED DO HAVE THE EFFECT OF FIRING THE DANCERS UP.

IN THE LINKS BELOW, YOU WILL SEE  REPETITIVE REFERENCES TO THE GREEK ORIGIN OF THIS ANCIENT GREEK WAR DANCE AND REPORTS THAT THE DANCE CALLED "HORON" WAS DERIVED. FROM THE GREEK CULTURE OF THE BLACK SEA AREA.

http://www.cometoturkey.com/trabzon.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabzon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Greeks

http://f33.fret.eu.org/0/?url=eWFyYXNraWhTL2lraXcvZ3JvLmFpZGVwaWtpdy5tLm5lLy9BMyVzcHR0aA==

http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Turkish_dance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_dance#Horon


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_dance

http://www.worldheritage.org/articles/eng/Turkish_dance

http://www.slideserve.com/kamea/turkish-traditions

http://www.karalahana.com/2015/10/25/traditional-pontic-dances-accompanied-by-the-pontic-lyra/

https://www.facebook.com/danceinturkey/

http://turkeshdancers.blogspot.com/2015/09/horon.html

http://pontosworld.com/index.php/music/dances/description/1098-the-serra   THIS ARTICLE ALSO SHOWS THE IMAGE OF A 1985 GREEK STAMP DEPICTING THE SERRA / "HORON" DANCE OF THE PONTIC GREEKS 

THE TURKISH CULTURAL "THEFT" OF THE NOTED ANCIENT GREEK WAR DANCE CAN BE VIEWED AS A FORM OF FLATTERY.

WHILE NOTING THE SUBJECT OF FLATTERY, IT IS WORTH ADDING THAT ON DECEMBER 25, 2016, I BUMPED INTO A YOUTUBE VIDEO WHICH DEPICTED JAPANESE PEOPLE, IN JAPAN, BEING TAUGHT THIS ANCIENT GREEK WAR DANCE BY ANOTHER JAPANESE INSTRUCTOR WHO WAS ALSO PLAYING THE GREEK PONTIAC LYRA LIKE A GREEK PRO.

AT LEAST HERE, FLATTERY CAN BE ESTABLISHED BY THE JAPANESE PEOPLE'S ENJOYMENT OF THE GREEK LYRA INSTRUMENT AND THE ANCIENT GREEK WAR DANCE AS WELL AS BY THEIR INTEREST IN LEARNING HOW TO PLAY THE INTRUMENT AND HOW TO DANCE THE GREEK WAR DANCE ... ONLY FOR ENTRTAINING PURPOSES AND NOT FOR PURPOSE OF ATTRIBUTING THEM TO THEIR CULTURE WITH FALSE CLAIMS OF BEING THEIR OWN. ...AS THE TURKS HAVE BEEN DOING 

SEE IT HERE AND ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS I DID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA2m5Tqq8I0
Japanese Horon

THE PONTIAN / DORIAN GREEKS HAVE BEEN CREDITED WITH THE PRESERVATION OF THIS ANCIENT GREEK MILITARY WAR DANCE AND OF THE ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE.  SEE THE LINKS BELOW, WHICH ALSO IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT NAMES THAT WERE GIVEN TO THIS SINGLE ANCIENT GREEK WAR DANCE. 

see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_(dance)

http://pontosworld.com/index.php/music/dances/description/1098-the-serra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhichios

http://www.wikivisually.com/wiki/Pyrrhichios

http://www.8plusone.com/uploads/8/9/6/6/8966627/historical_notes_about_pyrrhichios.pdf 

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/tools/dictionary.php?regexp=PYRRHIC+DANCE&method=standard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyOckxRSrnA
Greek traditional Pontian dance ~ O Pirixios Xoros ~ Olympics 2004 ~ Athens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBE0R-pa4J4&list=RDlBE0R-pa4J4  A FAST VERSION OF IT BY CRETANS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Chh2LPpVA
SERRA AND KOTSARI DANCES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW9BCoi5PvM
IN THIS VIDEO, THE SERRA WAR DANCE IS BEING DANCED BY THE GREEK PONTIANS CURRENTLY RESIDING IN THE BLACK SEA REGION OF TODAY'S TURKEY.  THE GREEK LANGUAGE IS HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND. ALTHOUGH THIS IS A BRIEF VIDEO AND NOT ALL STEPS AND MOVEMENTS ARE SHOWN, YOU CAN NOTICE THE FAST AGGRESSIVE AND HIGHLY PHYSICAL COMBAT-LIKE STYLE OF THIS DANCE. .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02AbCiPrZU
Horon - Folk Dance from Black Sea Region of Turkey
THIS VIDEO WAS UPLOADED BY A TURK WHO IDENTIFIED THIS DANCE BY ITS GREEK NAME "HORON". THIS IS A SOMEWHAT LENGTHIER VIDEO OF THIS ANCIENT GREEK MILITARY WAR DANCE AND MOST, BUT NOT ALL, STEPS AND MOVEMENTS ARE SHOWN.  TURKISH MEN, WEARING THE GREEK PONTIAN OUTFITS, DANCED THIS ANCIENT GREEK MILITARY WAR DANCE. 

NOTICE THE LOUD, FAST, PHYSICALLY VIGOROUS AND HIGHLY CARDIOVASCULAR DANCE STYLE WITH QUICK AGRESSIVE AND COMBAT-LIKE PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS. THE CHOREOGRAPHY HERE INCLUDED BRIEF SLOWER MOVEMENTS FOR RESTING PURPOSES, BUT THE ORIGINAL DANCE DOES NOT HAVE AS MANY AS THE ONES SHOWN HERE AND THE ACTUAL DANCING IS A LOT LONGER THAN THE ONE SEEN HERE.

LEARNING HOW TO DANCE THIS DANCE AND ACTUALLY DANCING IT,  CAN BE VERY EXAUSTING AND DIFFICULT TO AVERAGE FOLKS, ESPECIALLY FOLKS OF ADVANCED AGE. ONLY YOUNG, FIT MEN OF EXCELLENT HEALTH CAN ACTUALLY DO THIS. THIS MUST BE THE REASON THAT ITS STYLE HAS BEEN TONED DOWN A BIT OVER THE YEARS.

WITH REGARD TO GREEK DANCES, THIS IS AS ANCIENT GREECE AS YOU WILL EVER GET TO SEE

WE GOT OUR NEW NAME,  "PONTIAN GREEKS AND / OR PONTIC GREEKS" FROM THE NEW NAME OF THE REGION WHERE WE LIVED AT BEFORE THE TURKISH INVASION AND GENOCIDE. For a brief background see,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Greeks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus_(mythology)

http://jewsdownunder.com/2014/11/05/genocide-pontian-greeks-jewish-connection/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8520668.stm 
"Turkish mountains where they still speak Ancient Greek"


ADDED RELATED INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE LINKS BELOW:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78jgmBsIS8M
Πυρρίχιος ο Χορός των Θεών – Ντοκιμαντέρ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU18pgP2wyQ
Πυρριχιος, από ντοκυμαντερ του Ζήνωνα Ράμμου

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f3Rzqc2FFU
Πυρρίχιος χορός-Καλλιμάρμαρο στάδιο 1997

IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING, THE ANSWER IS YES, I CAN DANCE THESE DANCES AND I CAN ALSO SPEAK THE ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE AS WELL. IT WAS A "MUST DO" PART OF MY UPBRINGING. I HAD NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER. MY FELLOW PONTIAN GREEKS KNOW THIS VERY WELL. PRESERVING TRADITION IS A MANDATORY REQUIREMENT AND NOT AN OPTION.

IT APPEARS THAT PRINCE CHARLES HAS AN INTERESTING TASTE IN MUSIC IN THAT HE LIKED THE GREEK PONTIAN MUSIC PLAYED BY THE GREEK PONTIAN LYRA MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AT A CONCERT IN LONDON IN 2011

SEE THIS MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AT WORK IN THE LINK BELOW WHERE PONTIAN GREEKS ARE DANCING THE DANCE CALLED "KOTSARI". KOTSARI DANCE IS THE SECOND DANCE IN THE VIDEO AND IT IS ALSO ANOTHER FAST DANCE. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJLmlMk_h9o

THE MUSICIAN WHO WAS PLAYING THIS MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND WAS ALSO SINGING IN THE GREEK PONTIAN DIALECT, IS THE SAME ONE WHOM PRINCE CHARLES VISITED IN THE ABOVE NOTED CONCERT IN LONDON. HIS NAME IS Matthew Tsahourides

SEE HIM IN THE VIDEO BELOW, AT THE AGE OF 12, PLAYING THE GREEK PONTIAN LYRA LIKE A PRO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzzwqqebLek
Ο Ματθαιος Τσαχουριδης σε ηλικια 12 ετων....Matthaios Tsahouridis at the age of 12 years old.

ALSO SEE HIM IN THE LINK BELOW PLAYING THE FAST KOTSARI DANCE MUSIC, WHICH IS THE 2ND DANCE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrZrb1n1hVY

IN THE LINK BELOW, YOU WILL SEE PRINCE CHARLES VISITING ANOTHER INTERESTING SITE IN GREECE

http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/05/prince-charles-to-return-to-mount-athos.html

OTHER NOTABLES WHO VISITED GREECE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THEIR  INTEREST IN THE GREEK HISTORY AND NOT TO CONDUCT ANY POLITICAL BUSINESS, ARE GEORGE BUSH SENIOR AND VLADIMIR PUTIN.

Regards to all
ELENI
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/05/15/prince-charles-enamored-with-pontiac-lira-melodies/