sports dictionary Dance sports - APOKINNIS
Dance sports APOKINNIS (from the Greek apokineo "to push back") is an ancient Greek popular comic erotic dance. But when the Auletrids burst in to replace the Egyptians under the rapid peals of strings and tambourines, and began to spin, twist, and twist their hips in the apokinnis movement of the Hetaeras favorite dance of erotic courage and boldness, the power of Eros ignited the Hellenes (I. Efremov. Thais of Athens).