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Steve Teodosiadis
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Steve Teodosiadis participated in church-related Greek dance programs as his life took him from Long Beach to Oakland and finally to Seattle where he helped form the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church dance program. For forty years, he danced, directed, designed costumes, raised funds, and helped send hundreds of young dancers to participate at the annual Greek Folk Dance Festival (FDF).
Steve became a researcher/director in 1990, mentored by Joe Graziosi, Dimitri Kontoyiannis, and local instructors from Greece. Greek dancing became a way to study the culture, the history, the language, the geography of Greece. Then it became a way to make friends in the dance community and in Greece. Then it became a way to bring our youth together. And now it’s more a way to just feel young again. Greek dancing, by nature, is inclusive and sincere.