Dancers rehearse ahead of Olympic flame lighting ceremony for Paris Olympics

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(15 Apr 2024)
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Athens - 30 March 2024
1. Wide of dancers practicing performance for Olympic flame lighting ceremony
2. Close of dancers’ feet during rehearsal
3. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Artemis Ignatiou, choreographer and artistic director of the lighting and handover ceremonies for the Olympic flame:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOT 2 AND SHOT 4++
"It’s a very important event, an emotional thing to be part of and to create. But the responsibility is huge."
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Athens - 10 March 2024
4. Wide of choreographer and artistic director of the lighting and handover ceremonies for the Olympic flame Artemis Ignatiou with dancers during rehearsal
5. Low angle shot of choreographer’s legs as dancers rehearse in background; UPSOUND choreographer counting
6. Wide of dancers at rehearsal
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Athens - 30 March 2024
7. Various of dancers walking into Olympic velodrome for dress rehearsal
8. Close of dancers’ feet as they walk
9. Close of dancers waiting to start rehearsal
10. Various of dancers during rehearsal
11. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Artemis Ignatiou, choreographer and artistic director of the lighting and handover ceremonies for the Olympic flame:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 8-12 ++
“Apart from the fact that they should be graduates of a higher professional school of theater or dance, they should have ancient Greek beauty and a good moral character. And for me, they must really want this. They must want it as much as I did.”
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Athens - 31 March 2024
12. Wide of Acropolis as seen from Panathenaic Stadium, site of first modern Olympic Games
13. Close of Greek flag with Parthenon in background
14. Wide of stadium with Acropolis in background, and Greek and International Olympic Committee flags at right
15. Close of Olympic rings
16. Wide of Olympic rings and stadium
17. Various of performers rehearing
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Athens - 30 March 2024
18. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Artemis Ignatiou, choreographer and artistic director of the lighting and handover ceremonies for the Olympic flame:
++OVERLAID BY SHOTS 14-19++
"My inspiration comes from temple pediments, from images on vases, because there is no movement or dance that has been preserved from antiquity. So basically, what we are doing is joining up those images and everything in between comes from us.”
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Athens - 31 March 2024
19. Close of flame being lit during rehearsal
20. Actress Mary Mina playing the role of high priestess, standing and holding torch
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Athens - 30 March 2024
21. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Artemis Ignatiou, choreographer and artistic director of the lighting and handover ceremonies for the Olympic flame:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 21-22++
"At every rehearsal when the flame is lit, it fills my soul. And what I feel can’t be compared to anything else.”
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Athens - 10 March 2024
22. Ignatiou being applauded by dancers after rehearsal
STORYLINE:
No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or how dancers once moved.
Every two years, a new interpretation of the ancient performance gets a global audience. It takes place in southern Greece at a site many still consider sacred: the birthplace of the Olympic Games.
Details of the 30-minute performance are fine-tuned - and kept secret - right up until a public rehearsal Monday.
The Associated Press got rare access to rehearsals that took place during weekends, mostly at an Olympic indoor cycling track in Athens.
Sequences are repeated and re-repeated under the direction of the hyper-focused head choreographer Artemis Ignatiou.
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