Zorbas
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Zorbas ("Zorba's dance") is a song by Mikis Theodorakis, the leading Greek composer. The song appeared in the film Zorba the Greek, for which Theodorakis wrote the soundtrack, and became internationally famous and popular. It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas in Greece and worldwide and exists as a kind of music trademark of Greece. It is also known as "Syrtaki" which is an edited old traditional Cretan dance.