Between Apolo and Dionysos

Photo by Nuno Santos

Terpsichore Dance Group

Research and a wild guess into the mysteries of Ancient Greek Dance. Group directed and choreographed by Sara Toscano Design by Abdul Wahid

The "maidens of Karyai"

@ the Akropolis in Athens

Maenad

@ the archeological museum in Athens after being found asleep at the southern slope of the Athenian Acropolis.

Pillars of civilization

The trees in Dion and the columns in the Parthenon in Athens

The columns of Olympian Zeus

During the Roman period the temple of Zeus was considered the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the biggest cult statues in the ancient world

Following the thread of Ariadne

Dance and music performance "The Labyrinths of the Minotaur" in the Ruins of the Roman Theatre in Lisbon (Portugal)

Exiting the tomb of Agamemnon

@ Mycenas, Greece

The prize in a dancing competition

Wine jug with the inscription "Whoever of all these dancers now plays most delicately, to him this..." from 740 BC @ archaeologic museum Athens

Greek Chorus

"The Minotaur's Labyrinth" - a dance performance with live music. Choreography by Sara Toscano

Handshake

A beautiful gesture @ the Archeological Museum in Athens

A new generation of Isadorables

Performance "The dance of the future - a tribute to Isadora Duncan" Choreography by Fabienne Courmont @ Dora Stratou Theatre in Athens Photo by Theo Lian

ORISKAS @ Kallichoron

According to the Homeric Hymn, here rested Demeter, when she first came to Eleusis. Around this well the Eleusinian women performed dances during the ceremony in honor of the goddess. Dated to the first half of the 5th century B.C.

Chorus

Performance "The Minotaur's Labyrinth"

A new generation of Isadorables

Performance "The dance of the future - a tribute to Isadora Duncan" Choreography by Fabienne Courmont @ Dora Stratou Theatre in Athens Photo by Theo Lian

Le parisienne

@ knossos, Crete

Teaching Ancient Greek Dance

@ a Catholic Church in Southern Portugal - Festival Andanças

Dancing in Minoan times

@ Knossos, Crete

Procession

@ Knossos in Crete

Ariadne

Performance "The Minotaur's Labyrinth"

A new generation of Isadorables

Performance "The dance of the future - a tribute to Isadora Duncan" Choreography by Fabienne Courmont @ Dora Stratou Theatre in Athens Photo by Theo Lian

In the spirit of Dionysos

Carnival Original Bandalheira Dancer: Sara Toscano

Ritual

Performance "The Minotaur's Labyrinth"

In the Labyrinth

Performance "The Minotaur's Labyrinth"

East Pediment of the Parthenon

The Orchesis Group by Anna Lazou in Greece performing the embodiment of the East Pediment of the Parthenon At the World Congress on Dance Research @ Veakio Theatre, Piraeus

Ancient Greek Dance performance

By the Orchesis Group, coordinated by Anna Lazou. Performance at the Veakio Theatre during the World Congress on Dance Research

Summer residence of the Greek Gods

Mount Pelion, Greece

Greek Statue

Photo by Luís Conde

A path in Mount Pelion

@ Mount Pelion, Greece

Solo dancing in Paestum

Temple of Hera

4 Muses

Terpsichore dance group

The sacred grove of the Muses

In Dion, Greece by Sara Toscano

Stillness

@ Lake Prespa

Labyrinths

In the search of Ariadne, from the labyrinth of Athens to the labyrinth of Knossos

The Pillars of Hercules, Gibraltar

Pose

@ Veakio Theatre, Piraeus

Well of the fair dances

Kallichoron @ Eleusis, Greece

Spiral of knowledge

@ Kapodistrian university in Athens

Persephone in the Underworld

A myth in modern times. Photograph: Luís Conde Dancer: Sara Toscano

Holding hands with a Greek-Roman god

Creating illusions at Cinecittá, Rome

Sarakiniko, Milos

A lost dance

@ Dora Stratou Theatre Dancer Sara Toscano Photo by Nikos Karanikolas

Performance "The Myth of Persephone"

By Terpsichore group Choreography by Sara Toscano Music by Abdul Wahid Text by Pedro Feteira @ Casa do Fauno, Sintra

Inner temple

Performance "The dance of the future - a tribute to Isadora Duncan" Choreography by Fabienne Courmont @ Dora Stratou Theatre in Athens

Funeral Dance

@ archeological museum of Athens

Resting in Eleusis

@ Eleusis Site, the center for the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Temple of Poseidon

Paestum, Italy

The maiden

Performance "The myth of Persephone" Choreography by Sara Toscano Terpsichore Dance group Music by Abdul Wahib @ Casa do Fauno, Sintra, Portugal

Foot work

In "The Dance of Ancient Greece" by Lillian Lawler

Angular lines of Ruby Ginner

Performance "The dance of the future - a tribute to Isadora Duncan" Choreography by Fabienne Courmont @ Dora Stratou Theatre in Athens

Karyatides

"(...) those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants." @ The Acropolis Museum in Athens

A summer in Ancient Greece

Photo by Laura Hanpaa

Sanctuary of Aphrodite and Artemis

Later Alexander the Great made it the sanctuary of the goddess Isis. In Dion, Greece

Theatre built in Hadrian's time

@ on the site of the the sanctuary of Zeus Olympios In Dion, Greece