Miser Lou
Associations---Greece
Tapes Found On---DC I Cosmic Fire Grange Camp 97B
Origin---Greece
Choreographer---traditional
Notes
Done in a closed or open circle or in a spiral.
The MiserLou is a recreation of the Syrtos Kritikos.
When the Greek immigrants of the Philadelphia community wanted
to remember the old dance, they created in their vague memories the MiserLou
to a tango beat.
Bernard, in a paper on Sacred dance,
describes this dance as ëan open labyrinth dance ... moving into
the center (darkness) and out again into the light... the dance spirals
into the center
in an anti-clockwise direction, to meet the sun.î
Words in Native Tongue
Misirlu mu i glika su i matya.
Flogha míekhi anapsi mes tin kardia.
Akh yakhabibi, akh ya leleli akh
ta dyo su khili stazune meli oyme.
Ah, Misirlu, mayiki, soviki, omortis.
Trela tha murthi, den ipofero pia
Akh na se klepso mesa spo tin arapia.
Misirlu mavromata mu treli
Flogha míekhi anapsi ena su fili.
Akh yakhabibi ena filaki ya.
Ap to gliko su to stomataki oyme.
Akh Misirlu, mayiki soviki omorfis.
Trela tha murthi, then ipofero pia.
Akh na se klepso mes sp tin arapis.
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