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Les danses du Pontos remontent à l'origine des temps de laGrèce antique. Elles ont survécues au fil des années dans la culture des Grecs dans la région du Pontos près de la mer Noire , où elles ont été enseignées de génération en génération. Les danses du Pontos sont principalement des danses de guerre pour préparer au combat et des danses à caractère rituel.

...and history, food, music about Pontos

List of Pontian dances

The term kemenche (Turkish: kemençe, Greek: κεμεντζές) is used to describe two types of three-stringed bowed musical instruments:

• a bottle-shaped lute closely related to the Cappadocian Kemane, found in the Black Sea region of Asia Minor, it is also known as the "kementche of Laz" or Pontic kemenche and
• a pear-shaped lute closely related to the Byzantine lyra, found mainly in Instabul and the Eastern regions of Turkey, known as Classical kemenche.

Both types of kemenche are played in the downright position, either by resting it on the knee when sitting, or held in front of the player when standing. It is always played "braccio", that is, with the tuning head uppermost. The kemenche bow is called the doksar (Greek: δοξάρι), the Greek term for bow.

Lyre/lyra pontiaque, crétoise...

The word Pontos means "sea" and was first used to denote those Greeks living on the Black Sea coast in order to distinguish them from those Greeks in Central Cappadocia...