Click on a region on the map to read about the dances.

• Aegean Islands (between Greece & Turkey)
• Asia Minor/Pontus (modern-day Turkey)
• Crete (the southern-most Greek island)
• Epirus (Northwest Greece)
• Ionian Islands (between Greece & Italy)
• Macedonia (Northern Greece)
• Peloponnisos (Southern Greece)
• Sterea Ellada (Mainland Greece)
• Thessalia (Central Greece)
• Thrace (Northeastern Greece)

Thessalia

The landlocked but rich plains of Thessalia are Greece's bread basket.

Karagouna

The word refers to the black coats worn by the region's women (and in our Senior Girls' costumes); the dance is done to one specific folk song which a woman so beautiful that the poor shepherd is willing to sell off his livestock in order to buy her jewelry.