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In the big urban centers, like Athens it is observed the creation of cultural associations One such association is the Cultural Association in Leros, Peiraeus, Athens, where I am a dance teacher there since 2007. The aim of this paper is to highlight the role and the function of the fieldwork research on helping me to teach and dance better the dances from Leros. The collection of the data was based on the principles of the ethnographic research. The analysis and the interpretation of the ethnographic data were achieved based on the knowledge on how body can move and how the meaning is embodied along with the need to know the ethnographic facts and valid sources to learn and obtain the dance knowledge of the region. The fieldwork research gave me the appropriate dancing knowledge to stand in a very specific and local dancing repertoire, the Leros dances.
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos
is an Assistant Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens/School of Physical Education and Sport Science in the discipline of Choreology: Greek traditional dance. He has completed his postdoc at the same University. He has completed educational programs related to dance, but as well in other research and educational projects. He participates in scientific conferences and publish scientific papers in Greece and abroad. His scientific interests as well his published work concerns humanistic and social sciences related to dance, culture, history and dance, movement analysis, gender relations and dance, identity policies in dance and more. He teaches Greek traditional dance in various dance associations in Greece.
Chariton Charitonidis
holds a BSc majoring in Greek Traditional Dance and MSc in “Folklore–Dance Anthropology” from the School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a PhD student in “Dance Studies” at the same University. He works as a physical education teacher, dance instructor, dancer and musician. Research interests include traditional dance in contemporary contexts, relation between dance and politics, and movement analysis.
Maria Koutsouba
is a Professor at the School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a member of scientific organisations in Greece and abroad, and her research interests and publications are on social and human sciences with emphasis on ethnochoreology/dance anthropology, dance notation and movement analysis, cultural tourism and dance, dance education, as well as on educational innovations such as open and distance learning in dance.
