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Alkis Raftis
Born
Athens, Greece
NationalityGreek
Known forbooks on dance history

Alkis Raftis (Greek: Άλκης Ράφτης) is a dance historian and manager.[1][2][3][4]

Prof. Raftis is president of International Dance Council at UNESCO, Paris.[2][3] Since 1987 he is president of the national Dora Stratou Dance Theatre and Company in Athens.[2]

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), ISBN 9607204115
    • El mundo de la Danza Griega: Historia, Sociología e Investigación de la Danza (Spanish Edition), ISBN 8461714547
  • 1992: 'Χορός, πολιτισμός και κοινωνία [Dance, 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, ISBN 960-7589-009
  • 1984: Η εργασία στην ποίηση. Ποιήματα και τραγούδια για τη δουλειά σε ελληνική μετάφραση [Work in poetry. Poems and songs about work]

References

  1. International Dance Council (CID at UNESCO)
  2. Dora Stratou Dance Theatre and Company
  3. The Orchesis Portal