Opa (dance)

Opa (dance)
Music of Greece
General topics
Ancient • Byzantine • Néo kýma • Polyphonic song
Genres
Entehno • Dimotika • Hip hop • Laïko • Punk • Rock
Specific forms
Classical • Nisiotika • Rebetiko • Skiladiko
Media and performance
Music awards Arion Awards • MAD Video Music Awards • Pop Corn Music Awards
Music charts Greek Albums Chart • Foreign Albums Chart • Singles Chart
Music festivals Thessaloniki Song Festival
Music media Difono • MAD TV (MAD World, Blue) • MTV Greece
National anthem "Hymn to Liberty"
Regional music
Related areas Cyprus
Regional styles Aegean Islands • Arcadia • Argos • Crete • Cyclades • Dodecanese Islands • Epirus • Ionian Islands • Lesbos • Macedonia • Peloponnese • Thessaly • Thrace

Opa (dance) (Greek: ώπα) ,is an expression and dance of the Greek emotion, used inside the Greek traditional dances. Opa is also a knowable Greek phrase, worldwide. It usually accompanied, by breaking dishes and clapping while people dancing, enclosing the Greek culture.

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