Alkis Raftis ( gr, Άλκης Ράφτης) is a
dance historian
The history of dance is difficult to access because dance does not often leave behind clearly identifiable physical artifacts that last over millennia, such as stone tools, hunting implements or cave paintings. It is not possible to identify w ...
and manager.
[CID Officers and staff]
/ref>International Dance Council
The International Dance Council (CID, standing for French: ''Conseil International de la Danse'') is the umbrella organization for all forms of dance in the world. It is a non-profit international non-governmental organization founded in 1973 " ...
at UNESCO, Paris.[ Since 1987 he is president of the national ]Dora Stratou
Dora Stratou (born Dorothea Stratou; el, Δωροθέα (Δόρα) Στράτου; 1903–1988) was a significant contributor to Greek Folk Dancing and Greek Folk Music. She issued one of the largest series of folk music in the world with 50 re ...
Dance Theatre and Company in Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
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Books
*2019: ''Dance in Classical Greece. A handbook''
*2016: ''Dance Quotations''
*2007: ''Orientalist dance. Paintings and travellers’ accounts''
*2004: ''The dance in Rhodes'' (in Greek)
*2004: '' Dance and History in Cyprus'' (in Greek)
*2003: ''Dance in the culture of Karpathos'' (with Marigoula Kritsioti, in Greek).
*1997: ''Loupsiko. Wedding dances and songs'' (in Greek), (with Agoro Tsiou)
*1995: ''Enkyklopaideia tou hellēnikou chorou'' (Greek Edition),
** ''El mundo de la Danza Griega: Historia, Sociología e Investigación de la Danza (Spanish Edition)'',
*1992: 'Χορός, πολιτισμός και κοινωνία'' ance, culture and society*1991, 2006: ''Dance in Poetry: An International Anthology of Poems on Dance''
**1989: (French edition) ''Danse et poésie: Anthologie internationale de poèmes sur la danse''
*1987: ''The World of Greek Dance'',
*1984: ''Η εργασία στην ποίηση. Ποιήματα και τραγούδια για τη δουλειά σε ελληνική μετάφραση'' ork in poetry. Poems and songs about work
References
External links
International Dance Council (CID at UNESCO)
Dora Stratou Dance Theatre and Company
The Orchesis Portal
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1942 births
Living people
Writers from Athens
Dance historians