Zorba's Dance

For other uses, see Zorba.

Zorbas ("Zorba's dance") is a song by Mikis Theodorakis, a Greek composer. This song is originally known as "Armenohorianos Syrtos" by Giorgis Koutsourelis. The song appeared in the film Zorba the Greek, for which Theodorakis wrote the soundtrack, and became internationally famous and popular. It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas in Greece and worldwide and exists as a kind of music trademark of Greece. It is also known as "Syrtaki" which is a version of the traditional Greek hasapiko ("butcher's") dance .

The song was featured, among others, in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and in the Subdivision (Prison Break) episode where Charles "Haywire" Patoshik raids a fast food joint and gorges himself in soda and ice cream..

The song is particularly infamous in Peru for its association with Shining Path. In the early 1990s, a video of Shining Path's leadership dancing to the song was given to the media, showing that the organization's heads were hiding in Lima itself.

UK Eurodance act LCD covered the song in 1998.

Christopher S & DJ Flava, two house remixers, also remixed the song in 2009.