Editing Hasapiko

{{Short description|Type of Greek folk dance from Constantinople}}
[[File:Fast Hasapikos.webm|thumb|left|Fast Hasapikos in the atrium of the [[Zappeion]] on March 3, 1926.]]

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The '''hasapiko''' ({{langx|el|χασάπικο}}, {{IPA|el|xaˈsapiko|pron}}, meaning “the butcher's [dance]”) is a [[Greek dances|Greek folk dance]] from [[Constantinople]]. The dance originated in the [[Middle Ages]] as a battle [[mime]] with swords performed by the [[Greeks|Greek]] butchers' guild, which adopted it from the military of the [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantine era]].<ref>''Sword dance'' [https://www.britannica.com/art/sword-dance] in Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 14 April 2022, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online</ref> In [[Constantinople]] during the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] times, it was called in Greek μακελλάρικος χορός (''makellárikos horós, ''"butcher's dance", from μακελλάριος “butcher”). Some [[Greeks]], however, reserve the latter term only for the fast version of the dance.

The slow version of the dance is called χασάπικο βαρύ / χασάπικος βαρύς (''hasapiko vary ''or ''hasapikos varys, ''"heavy ''hasapiko''") and generally employs a {{music|time|4|4}} meter.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGdFCQAAQBAJ&q=hasaposerviko+fast+hasapiko&pg=PA229|title=Culture and Customs of Greece|last=Leontis|first=Artemis|date=2009-04-30|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=9780313342974|pages=229|language=en}}</ref> The fast version of the dance uses a {{music|time|2|4}} meter. It is variously called γρήγορο χασάπικο (''grigoro hasapiko'', "''fast'' ''hasapiko''") or χασαποσέρβικο (''hasaposerviko''),<ref name=":0" /> the last two terms in reference to [[Serbia]]n and other Balkan influences on this version of the dance. The fast version is also called μακελλάριος χορός (''makellarios horos)'', {{cn|date=June 2015}} 

[[Sirtaki]], the [[invented tradition|modern staple Greek dance]], is a relatively new, choreographed dance, based on hasapiko.<ref name=":0" />

==See also==
*[[Greek dances]]
*[[Kalamatianos]]
*[[Pyrrhichios]]
*[[Serra (dance)|Serra]]
*[[Syrtos]]

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040218140458/http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/dances/hasapiko.htm Hasapiko description]

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