Bringing traditional dances and music from Cyprus, Greece, southern Italy and Asia Minor, the Dance, Dance in the Neighbourhood festival returns to its quaint Nicosia community. Organised once more by ...

Let’s take, for instance, the ‘poiitarides’ – or ‘itinerant poets’, as Nicoletta Demetriou calls them.‘Poiitarika’ (the category name for their works) were “long narrative songs,” she explains, “the ...