Welcome to Luna Dance in Samothraki - Welcome!

Do you feel like dancing, drumming, sun, sea and beautiful nature? Then you are cordially invited to come to Greece with us for this year's Luna Dance Week. We change location and move to Samothraki - the island of a thousand waterfalls and springs, on which trees entwine like mythical creatures. Here we have found a place that was originally and so far spared from mass tourism. The islanders are very hospitable.

Look forward to warm encounters, live percussion and holistic dance training in the most beautiful places in the middle of nature. We dance at magical waterfalls and refreshing springs - in fairytale forest clearings, on beaches with crystal clear water and on the magical moon mountain. And like every year we celebrate a beautiful new moon ritual under the starry sky.


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Zsuzsa Parrag
(Choreographer, dancer, dance teacher, director & founder of the Art Oriental / Berlin school) has been a dance teacher for over 25 years. Moving people internally and externally is one of her great passions. She knows how to carry her students away and how to convey even the most unusual movements with a lot of ease. Zsuzsa is trained in traditional oriental and Afro-Haitian dance. However, she has long since found her own style, which expressively interweaves different dance styles. Elements from yoga, butoh, gyrokinesis, dance theater and contemporary improvisation techniques flow into her work. She is more and more drawn to dancing in nature, which is the ideal 'space' for her to experience dance in its originality. The infinite variety of shapes, the silent dance of the trees, the dynamic skyscapes - the rustling of the wind and the sea etc. - all this and much more inspires her and she wants to share all of this with her students in the beautiful places of this world.

Zsuzsa studied dance all over the world. She has been traveling the Caribbean for over 15 years and has found a second home in Haiti. Since then she has been researching the country's traditional dances in their cultural and ritual context and now teaches them across Europe. Her deep love for the dances of Haiti is also reflected in her lessons and makes her workshops a special experience for all participants.
Claude Saturne
has been playing since childhood. Through his mother, who was an ounzi-kanzo (spiritual singer in a vodou temple), he was introduced to the ritual rhythms and chants of Haiti at an early age and gained deep insights into the practice of a vodou temple. At the age of sixteen he met the musicians of the legendary Mizik Rasin band Boukan Ginen, who shaped him musically. Numerous encounters with percussionists and vodou priests in different areas of Haiti followed, which enabled him to expand his musical knowledge. Today he has mastered over 80 rhythms and is constantly looking for new variations. In 2000 he became a member of the Badji group - under the direction of the well-known jazz saxophonist Turgot Théodat and was involved in many productions at home and abroad until 2009. At the same time he played with various Haitian artists - such as Wooli Saint Louis Jean, Belo, Bob Bovano, Samba Zao, was involved in various theater productions and directed countless musical training courses at schools, cultural centers and at the Academy of Arts in Port-au-Prince. Claude has lived in France since 2009 and has played in various productions with artists such as Erol Josué, Bob Bovano, Moonlight Benjamin. Among other things, he participated in the international project `Jazz Racines Haiti` by Jacques Schwartz-Bart.
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