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Sirtaki or syrtaki [1] (Greek: συρτάκι) is a dance of Greek origin, choreographed for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. [2] It is a recent Greek folkdance, and a mixture of "syrtos" and the slow and fast rhythms of the hasapiko dance. The dance and the accompanying music by Mikis Theodorakis are also called Zorba's dance, the Zorba or "the ...
"Zorba's Dance" (Greek: Ο Χορός Του Ζορμπά) is an instrumental by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. [1] The music is part of the soundtrack for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, [2] and used in the film to accompany the dance known as sirtaki. It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas. The film's track has since been ...
Basil is a staid, somewhat buttoned-up, middle-class Greek-British writer raised in the United Kingdom.While at the Athens port of Piraeus waiting to catch a ferry to Crete he meets a middle-aged peasant and musician named Zorba who carries only a santouri in a case, in contrast to Basil's large quantity of luggage, including cases of books.
Zorba the Greek (Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, Latin: Víos kai Politeía tou Aléxē Zorbá, Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas) is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous ...
In the early 1960s, Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis based his theme music for the 1964 Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek (itself based on the novel by Cretan author Nikos Kazantzakis) on Cretan syrta that had been recorded earlier by Giorgis Koutsourelis, such as on the hasapiko dance. The new dance was named "sirtaki" by choreographer Giorgos ...
It depicts Quinn in his famous Zorba the Greek role, and it remains one of the largest portrait murals in California. [35] Both the portrait mural and Anthony Quinn himself are the subject of a 2018 Google Arts & Culture exhibit. [36] His birthplace of Chihuahua, Mexico, [37] has a statue of Quinn doing his famous "Zorba the Greek" dance.
Zorba the Greek, a 1946 novel by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis Syrtaki, a Greek dance commonly called the Zorba; Zorba the Greek, a 1964 movie based on the novel; Zorba, a musical based on the novel and film "Zorba's Dance", a song by Mikis Theodorakis featured in the film; Zorba the Hutt, a Star Wars Legends character
It was later translated as Zorba the Greek and also adapted into Zorba musical (1968) and an Academy Award-nominated film, Zorba the Greek (1964), wherein his role was played by Anthony Quinn. [2] His life continued in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he settled in 1922 with his 10-year-old daughter, Katerina.